Eight Academy Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay
The official tie-in screenplay by the writer of The Full Monty.
A penniless 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai is just one question away from winning the top prize on India's Who Wants to be a Millionaire? But when the show breaks for the night, he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. In a series of thrilling flashbacks the film tells Jamal's story and reveals how he came to know all the answers...
In addition to the full screenplay, this volume contains:
* A foreword by screenwriter Simon Beaufoy
* An introduction by director Danny Boyle
* Q&A with Danny Boyle
* 8 pages of colour stills and production shots
* Complete cast and crew credits'funny, shocking, spectacularly turbo-charged... a hugely important film in contemporary cinema' Daily Telegraph
'Terrific...puts a spring in your step and brings a tear to the eye' The Times
'Thrilling...perhaps the most rousing, delightful film ever to have graced closing night [at the London Film Festival]' Observer
'a glorious and great work... leaves you with a big smile on your face without insulting your brain... Beaufoy has come up with a clever screenplay... and what a story!' Sunday Times
- ISBN13 9781848420397
- Publish Date 8 January 2009 (first published 9 December 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 June 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Nick Hern Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English