Canada:122 min (Toronto International Film Festival) / USA:122 min
MPAA
:
Rated PG-13 for sexuality/nudity, a scene of drug use, some disturbing images and brief language.
Company
:
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Genre
:
Drama
Soundtrack
:
The Same song
Color
:
Color
Filming Locations
:
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Language
:
Hindi / English / Bengali / French
Sound Mix
:
DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Aspect Ratio
:
1.85 : 1
Certification
:
Netherlands:12 / Ireland:12A / Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) / Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) / Singapore:NC-16 / USA:PG-13
Country
:
India / USA
Overwiew :American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways. Ganges / Jet Lag / Pot Smoking / Calcutta India / Parents
USA Today - Claudia Puig : ...an engaging and moving film with a universal story... more...
A-
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Paula Nechak : The actors are all well-cast, thoughtful and sometimes funny. more...
A-
San Francisco Chronicle - Ruthe Stein : ...a deeply moving saga of several generations of a Bengali family... more...
B
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers : ...a generational family saga everyone can relate to... more...
B
ReelViews - James Berardinelli : ...has a scope that many multi-generational stories lack. more...
A-
New York Times - Stephen Holden : ...expresses a reassuring faith in family solidarity. more...
B+
New York Post - Lou Lumenick : ...this gorgeously designed and photographed movie artfully depicts the immigrant experience in ways that transcend its setting... more...
B+
Filmcritic.com - Chris Cabin : ...the director has found her most apt presentation of the American way... more...
B
Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman : moving and marvelous...cross-cultural family saga... more...
A-
E! Online - Matt Stevens : ...often episodic and dramatically rushed. more...
B-
Chicago Tribune - Michael Wilmington : ...a powerful movie... more...
A
Boston Globe - Ty Burr : ...entertaining and alert, a production fully felt... more...
B+
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Eleanor Ringel Gillespie : A marvelous multi-generational family saga. more...
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