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Film: Lucky

Not rated. In Zulu, Hindi, and English with English subtitles. 100 minutes.


How could an orphaned, 10-year old homeless South African boy ever be
called Lucky? Over his mother's grave, Lucky makes a promise to make
something of himself. Leaving his remote Zulu village for the big city
with the hope of going to school, he arrives on the doorstep of an uncle
who has no use for him. Lucky then falls in with Padma, an elderly
Indian woman with an inherent fear of Africans, who takes him in as she
would a stray dog. Though unable to speak each other's language, they
develop an unlikely bond. Through an odyssey marked by greed, violence,
and, ultimately, belonging, Lucky shows how a child's spirit can bring
out decency, humility and love in adults struggling to survive in the
new South Africa.


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