BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090419 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090422 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE SUMMARY:Smith screens Oscar-winning ''Slumdog Millionairer'' DESCRIPTION:Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture\, "Slumdog Millionaire" is a breathless and exciting film\, a buoyant hymn to life\, and a heartbreakingly effective paean to destiny. Fanciful\, epic and exuberantly paced\, "Slumdog Millionaire" chronicles the life of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel)\, a dirt-poor orphan who captivates the masses as he wins a fortune on India's most popular quiz show. Told in non-linear style\, the movie switches among harrowing stories of Jamal's childhood in the slums of Mumbai to his moments of awkward glory as a contestant on the show to his sudden incarceration and ensuing interrogation. It is this questioning by a police inspector (Irfan Khan) that elicits the compelling flashbacks of his early youth. Some of those memories are deeply disturbing. Jamal recounts terrible cruelties from his impoverished childhood: homelessness\, torture\, prostitution. He forms a bond with a savvy street urchin\, Latika (played as a teen by Freida Pinto)\, which blossoms into love. Despite -- or perhaps because of -- his traumatic childhood\, Jamal becomes a determined romantic. In the process\, he acquires knowledge on a wealth of subjects. By the time he appears as a contestant on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire\," he has absorbed a range of information\, keeping him on the show far longer than the smarmy host (Anil Kapoor) finds credible. The beautifully rendered and energetic tale celebrates resilience\, the power of knowledge and the vitality of the human experience. Horrifying\, humorous and life-affirming\, it is\, above all\, unforgettable. It is rated R and has a running time of 120 minutes. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture\, "\;Slumdog Millionaire"\; is a breathless and exciting film\, a buoyant hymn to life\, and a heartbreakingly effective paean to destiny.

Fanciful\, epic and exuberantly paced\, "\;Slumdog Millionaire"\; chronicles the life of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel)\, a dirt-poor orphan who captivates the masses as he wins a fortune on India&rsquo\;s most popular quiz show. \;Told in non-linear style\, the movie switches among harrowing stories of Jamal&rsquo\;s childhood in the slums of Mumbai to his moments of awkward glory as a contestant on the show to his sudden incarceration and ensuing interrogation. It is this questioning by a police inspector (Irfan Khan) that elicits the compelling flashbacks of his early youth.

Some of those memories are deeply disturbing. Jamal recounts terrible cruelties from his impoverished childhood: homelessness\, torture\, prostitution. He forms a bond with a savvy street urchin\, Latika (played as a teen by Freida Pinto)\, which blossoms into love. \;Despite -- or perhaps because of -- his traumatic childhood\, Jamal becomes a determined romantic. In the process\, he acquires knowledge on a wealth of subjects. By the time he appears as a contestant on "\;Who Wants to Be a Millionaire\,"\; he has absorbed a range of information\, keeping him on the show far longer than the smarmy host (Anil Kapoor) finds credible.

The beautifully rendered and energetic tale celebrates resilience\, the power of knowledge and the vitality of the human experience. \;Horrifying\, humorous and life-affirming\, it is\, above all\, unforgettable. It is rated R and has a running time of 120 minutes. \; \;

\; LOCATION:Smith Opera House82 Seneca StGeneva\, NY UID:e.248.2367 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260412T191447Z URL:https://members.flxchamber.com/events/details/smith-screens-oscar-winning-slumdog-millionairer-04-19-2009-2367 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR