Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston, Jason Schwartzman

THE DARJEELING LIMITED, starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman, is an emotional comedy about three brothers re-forging family bonds. The eldest, played by Wilson, hopes to reconnect ...( read more  read more... )with his two younger siblings by taking them on a train trip across the vibrant and sensual landscape of India.

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R, 1 hr. 31 min.

Directed by: Wes Anderson

Release Date: October 26, 2007

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DVD Release Date: February 26, 2008

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  • September 2, 2009
    Wes Anderson just keeps getting better and better. Beautifully shot and with superb sets and locations, this is another original film about family relationships and personal discovery, its what Anderson does best. Brody, Schwartzman and Wilson are all equally brilliant. Its a mus...( read more)t see!
  • July 21, 2009
    I didnt like it but visually it was intriguing and the way the actors played their characters was jokes.
  • April 7, 2009
    What was this about?? nothing is the answer..utter nonsense with no apparant plot. The cast is the usual Wes Anderson line up with the usual Anderson mystery plot, just like the Life Aquatic. It makes no sense atall and is thoroughly boring. The only thing that ran through my min...( read more)d as I watched this is, this is just an excuse for a free trip across India for cast and crew....with pay!! there is no other reason for it, wish I could do that.
  • January 13, 2009
    I kept falling asleep during this uninteresting movie.
  • January 6, 2009
    Interesting and original but does not captivate and draw in. More spacy and off the wall but I guess that's standard for Wes Anderson Films, so if you like his other films you will like this peculiar piece.
  • November 7, 2009
    Wes Anderson's meticulous craft has only grown increasingly brilliant and indulgent with each film. The ability it takes to transport visual trademarks of his kind out of a technical comfort zone and apply them in a far off foreign land is one of greatness; takes some serious cin...( read more)ema skillz. His notoriously idiosyncratic style also frequently makes him an easy target for critics who feel he dishes out the same thing over and over - but I feel many of them overlook the loads of personal depth and human longing on full display in all of his work. I think those who equate his quirk with superficial kitsch are blindly mistaken.

    I like just about everything about THE DARJEELING LIMITED. The fable quality of these three brothers' journey taps into a lot of real feelings and attitudes I and my siblings have. Although it's probably my least favorite of Anderson's stuff so far (and I also love HOTEL CHEVALIER, the prologue to this, a lot more) I still believe DARJEELING is one of the great feature length American films of 2007. For me, Wes Anderson belongs to a league of screen masters who always deliver a type of cinema that can only be associated with their distinct art look and feel (Luis Bunuel, David Lynch). He's just one of the few American directors that I feel is doing anything remotely interesting and inventive with comedy movies at this point in time, even when he's doing one about the same themes he's already tirelessly explored.
  • November 3, 2009
    Super aburridisima. Queria salirme del cine!
  • October 30, 2009
    I really enjoyed this film. I think it could be my favorite movie by the highly talented Wes Anderson. Very funny, lots of depth, poignant.
  • October 26, 2009
    India as a backdrop to this movie was brilliant and fascinating. Seems like the country has just enough quirkiness/weirdness/uniqueness to complement this quirky/weird/unique movie. I loved it.
  • October 22, 2009
    I love Wes Anderson but HATED this movie. Went nowhere...

Critic Reviews


February 26, 2008
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com

The new 20th Century-Fox Home Video release of "The Darjeeling Limited" offers quite a conundrum for fans of Wes Anderson... full review

October 9, 2007
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

The Darjeeling Limited works best when the level of artifice is at its highest and most overt. full review

October 5, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

A better film [than Life Aquatic], warmer, more engaging, funnier and very surrounded by India, that nation of perplexing charm. full review

October 3, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

The magically compelling Darjeeling Limited strikes me as the fullest blossoming yet of Anderson's talents as a total filmmaker. full review

September 28, 2007
A.O. Scott, The New York Times

Unstintingly fussy, vain and self-regarding. But it is also a treasure: an odd, flawed, but nonetheless beautifully handmade object as apt to win affection as to provoke annoyance. You might say that ...

September 27, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim

A wonderful mix of humor and humanity, vintage Wes Anderson that's fine and funny as he takes us on a soul searching magical mystery tour. full review

September 27, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Anderson is still a maddeningly cool filmmaker. He's remote from his characters, which makes him remote from his movies. There's also a way in which he uses race as a novelty, suggesting an assertivel... full review

September 26, 2007
Armond White, The New York Press

The Darjeeling Limited is so reflective of personal experience (within the context of rarefied pop antecedents) that it returns common emotional power to today's fragmented, disingenuous popular culture. full review

September 24, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine

Hit and miss, but its tone of lyric melancholy is remarkably sustained. full review

September 22, 2007
Marcy Dermansky, About.com

A wonderful film -- both funny and affecting. full review

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Comments


  • aaaartstar
    April 25, 2008
    This movie is so beautiful and amazing, I loved it!

    And Natalie was actually in it, just in the short clip called "Hotel Chevalier" before the feature part of the movie.
  • ancientheart
    April 23, 2008
    Natalie Portman was in the short film - prequel to this film in which she acted as Jason Swartzman's ex-girlfriend (whom he twice or thrice tapped into her phone messages and whom he was last said to be meeting in Italy). The short film is connected to this film and is indeed significant to Jason Shwartzman's character.
  • LikeThe309
    April 11, 2008
    yea she is...in the intro movie thats shown before the movie
  • rickay4
    February 7, 2008
    so its on DVD sweet
  • AussieJenni
    July 30, 2007
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    July 25, 2007
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