I guess technically you could say that this is a good movie, but I've spent more entertaining hours watching my dog play with a bug. Bored the snot out of me.
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Gandhi
Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Ian Charleson, John Gielgud
Biographical epic on the life of Mohandas K Gandhi, a proponent of peaceful revolution who led his country's fight for independence and was subsequently assassinated.
Id: 10905060
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July 6, 2009
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May 19, 2009
Reverent drama of the lawyer who became the leader of the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India. Ben Kingsley gives a flawless performance in the role of a lifetime. Technically stunning, exhaustively detailed biography about one of the 20th cent...( read more)
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November 9, 2008
As always Old Fashioned Hollywood Superb portrait of India's great political and spiritual leader comes to life in Ben Kingsley's authoritative yet sensitive performance. Director Richard Attenborough's epic-scale production re-creates Gandhi's life and times, especially his use ...( read more)
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August 25, 2008
"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body. NOT MY OBEDIENCE!"
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For decades, Richard Attenborough's sweeping epic biographical film Gandhi has been incessantly subjected to critical acclaim and abject disparaging. -
June 23, 2008
''Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.''
-Mahatma Gandhi-
Biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
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December 16, 2009
epic, definatly inspired by david lean, attenborough goes all out, and kingsley showing great range as gandhi taking on politics in india and of all things, the british empire, with his piecefull no violence aproach to revolution, and it worked, history made, a great looking film...( read more)
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December 15, 2009
After seeing Gandhi, the opening phrase that the film shows is strengthened: there is no filmic adaptation that can truly capture every action, every moment, every key event in the life of a hero. Following this unnecessary portrayal of modesty, Attenborough initiates a moving jo...( read more)
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November 30, 2009
Gandhi grew up in an Indian town, went to England where he studied Law and received his law degree and he then returned to India. In 1915 he established an ashram at Wardha, near Ahmadabad to train suitable workers for the freedom movement. Although his achievements as one of the...( read more)
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November 23, 2009
The 1982 film Gandhi is a biographical film about the life of Gandhi. The film begins with his assassination and then goes back to an even in South Africa. Most of the film deals with Gandhi's attempt to bring independence to India.
Overall, this film reminded me of The Last Emp...( read more)
