Slumdog Millionaire: Movie Showtimes and Reviews on washingtonpost.com

This move is very evocative of the globalization issues resulting from the modern economy. I highly recommend it.

"Slumdog Millionaire," a modern-day "rags-to-rajah" fable, won the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, and it's easy to see why. With its timely setting of a swiftly globalizing India and, more specifically, the country's own version of the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" TV show, "Slumdog Millionaire" plays like Charles Dickens for the 21st century. But in this particular saga, the coal dust of Victorian England has been replaced by the Tata fumes and computer-screen glow that envelop a country in the throes of profound economic and cultural change.

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