SLUMDOG Is "This Year's
Little Engine That Could"
Read what Movie City News' Kim Voynar had to say about SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE in the film blog's "Oscar Outsider." We've included snippets from the page-long posting below, and you can click here to read the article in its entirety.
• "Like pretty much everyone else who saw the film that night at Telluride, I left the screening with the magical sense I'd had walking out of the sneak of 'Juno' almost exactly a year earlier -- that undeniable feeling that I'd just seen something special, a surprising, honest, heartwarming film with the potential to be big. Very big..."
• "Boyle's most broadly accessible film to date, and with its classic storytelling structure, it will appeal to a wider audience than many of Boyle's previous films..."
• "'Slumdog' has several things in common with both 'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'Juno,' in particular the originality with which the scripts put the characters into situations we haven't seen done to death already, a light-hearted tone standing out amidst a sea of darker, heavier films, and spot-on casting with relative unknowns in the key roles..."
• "Like both 'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'Juno,' 'Slumdog' is the kind of film that will generate legs through positive word-of-mouth buzz. It's a feel-good, uplifting movie at a time when people want desperately to feel good and be uplifted; people are sick of politics and war, they want to laugh and leave behind reality when they go to a movie, and 'Slumdog' will give the people what they want..."
• "Will 'Slumdog' prove to be this year's Little Engine that Could? I think it can, I think it can, I think it can..."
Again, click here to read the article in its entirety on Movie City News.
One of the greatest Directors of our times Mr. Boyle,
we had an opportunity to work with this GENIOUS for almost an year.
I have seen him Eating, walking, sleeping, Talking & breathing only slumdog millionair.