Lucky available on November 25 2015 from Amazon for 10.99
UPC bar code 616892185765 ξ1 registered January 16 2014
Product category is Video Movie
Manufacturered by Film Movement
Product weight is 0.15 lbs.
Brand Name: MVM Mfg#: 616892185765 Shipping Weight: 0.19 lbs Manufacturer: Genre: All music products are properly licensed and guaranteed authentic. How could a recently orphaned, 10-year old homeless South African boy ever be called Lucky? Over the grave of his dead mother, Lucky makes a promise to make something of himself. Leaving the security of 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 Padme, an elderly Indian woman with an inherent fear of Africans, who takes him in as she would a stray dog. Together, 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 even love in adults struggling to survive in the new South Africa.
Let me state upfront that I am a big fan of the Film Movement library of foreign and indie movies, in fact I finally gave in and started my membership last year to their DVD of the Month releases. This is the February, 2013 release in that on-going series."Lucky" (2011 release from South Africa; 104 min.) brings the story of Lucky, a 10 yr. old boy living in a remote Zulu village in South Africa. As the movie be..
