Additional information for Life of Pi, which has a domestic theatrical release set for November 21, 2012. The film is being distributed by 20th Century Fox and has not yet been rated. Life of Pi has a total running time of 127 minutes.
PG
USA
All
South Korea
PG
UK
PG
Ireland
11
Norway
11
Denmark
G
Japan
PG
Singapore
12
Netherlands
U
India
I
Hong Kong
10
Switzerland
M/12
Portugal
11
Sweden
10
Brazil
12
Germany
G
Philippines
PG
Australia
K-12
Finland
13
Argentina
PT
Peru
127min
Una aventura extraordinaria
Argentina
Una aventura extraordinaria
Chile
Una aventura extraordinaria
Mexico
Una aventura extraordinaria
Peru
Una aventura extraordinaria
Uruguay
Pijev život
Croatia
Pijev život
Serbia
Η ζωή του Πι
Greece
Животът на Пи
Bulgaria
A Vida de Pi
Portugal
As Aventuras de Pi
Brazil
Berättelsen om Pi
Sweden
Cuoc Doi Cua Pi
Vietnam
Hayey Pai
Israel
Historien om Pi
Norway
I zoi tou Pi
Greece
L'histoire de Pi
Canada
L'odyssée de Pi
France
La vida de Pi
Spain
Life of Pi: Schiffbruch mit Tiger
Germany
Pi élete
Hungary
Pi a jeho zivot
Czech Republic
Pi gyvenimas
Lithuania
Pi'nin Yasami
Turkey
Pii elu
Estonia
Piin elämä
Finland
Pijev zivot
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Viata lui Pi
Romania
Vita di Pi
Italy
Zycie Pi
Poland
September 28, 2012
USA
October 14, 2012
USA
November 10, 2012
Taiwan
November 21, 2012
Canada
November 21, 2012
Puerto Rico
November 21, 2012
Taiwan
November 21, 2012
USA
November 22, 2012
China
November 22, 2012
Hong Kong
November 22, 2012
Republic of Macedonia
November 23, 2012
India
November 29, 2012
Cambodia
November 29, 2012
Malaysia
November 29, 2012
Singapore
November 30, 2012
Indonesia
November 30, 2012
Pakistan
November 30, 2012
Spain
December 09, 2012
United Arab Emirates
December 14, 2012
Vietnam
December 19, 2012
Belgium
December 19, 2012
France
December 20, 2012
Belarus
December 20, 2012
Bosnia and Herzegovina
December 20, 2012
Croatia
December 20, 2012
Czech Republic
December 20, 2012
Greece
December 20, 2012
Hungary
December 20, 2012
Ireland
December 20, 2012
Israel
December 20, 2012
Italy
December 20, 2012
Kazakhstan
December 20, 2012
Kuwait
December 20, 2012
Kuwait
December 20, 2012
Lebanon
December 20, 2012
Netherlands
December 20, 2012
Portugal
December 20, 2012
Serbia
December 20, 2012
Slovakia
December 20, 2012
Slovenia
December 20, 2012
Thailand
December 20, 2012
UK
December 20, 2012
United Arab Emirates
December 21, 2012
Brazil
December 21, 2012
Bulgaria
December 21, 2012
Colombia
December 21, 2012
Ecuador
December 21, 2012
Estonia
December 21, 2012
Finland
December 21, 2012
Iceland
December 21, 2012
Lithuania
December 21, 2012
Mexico
December 21, 2012
Romania
December 21, 2012
South Africa
December 21, 2012
Sweden
December 25, 2012
Denmark
December 25, 2012
Norway
December 26, 2012
Austria
December 26, 2012
Germany
December 27, 2012
Bahrain
December 27, 2012
Costa Rica
December 27, 2012
Dominican Republic
December 27, 2012
Peru
December 28, 2012
Turkey
January 01, 2013
Australia
January 01, 2013
El Salvador
January 01, 2013
Guatemala
January 01, 2013
New Zealand
January 01, 2013
Panama
January 01, 2013
Russia
January 01, 2013
South Korea
January 01, 2013
Ukraine
January 03, 2013
Bolivia
January 03, 2013
Chile
January 03, 2013
Nicaragua
January 04, 2013
Honduras
January 04, 2013
Mongolia
January 04, 2013
Uruguay
January 09, 2013
Egypt
January 09, 2013
Philippines
January 10, 2013
Argentina
January 11, 2013
Poland
January 24, 2013
Japan
February 08, 2013
Venezuela
February 28, 2013
Singapore
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A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Pi Patel (Irrfan Khan), an immigrant from Pondicherry in India living in Montreal, Canada, is approached by a local novelist (Rafe Spall) who has been referred to him by his "uncle" (a family friend), believing that Pi's life story would make a great book. Pi relates an extended tale:His parents had named him Piscine Molitor after a swimming pool in France. He changes his name to "Pi" (the mathematical symbol,) when he begins secondary school (Gautam Belur), even repeating numerous digits of pi, because he is tired of being taunted with the nickname "Pissing Patel". His family owns a local zoo, and Pi takes an interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker because of a clerical error. Pi tries to feed the tiger, endangering himself to being attacked, and to teach him the reality of the tiger's nature as a carnivore, Pi's father (Adil Hussain) forces him to witness it killing a goat. He is raised Hindu and vegetarian, but at 12 years old, he is introduced to Christianity and then Islam, and starts to follow all three religions as he "just wants to love God." When asked if he is also Jewish, he replies that he lectures in Kabbalah at the university.When Pi is 16 (Ayush Tandon), his father decides to close the zoo and move his family to Canada, and sell the zoo animals, to ensure a good future for his children. They book passage with their animals (to be sold in North America) on a Japanese freighter named the Tsimtsum. On board the ship, Pi's father gets into an argument with the ship's cook (Gerard Depardieu) when he speaks to Pi's mother (Tabu) rudely. One night, the ship encounters a heavy storm and begins to sink while Pi is on deck marveling at the storm. He tries to find his family, but a crew member throws him into a lifeboat; from the rough sea, he watches helplessly as the ship sinks, killing his family and its crew.After the storm, Pi finds himself in the lifeboat with an injured zebra, and is joined by an orangutan, named Orange Juice, who lost her offspring in the shipwreck. A spotted hyena emerges from the tarp covering half of the boat, and kills the zebra. To Pi's distress, the hyena also mortally wounds the orangutan in a fight. Suddenly Richard Parker emerges from under the tarp, and kills and eats the hyena.Pi finds emergency food and water rations on the boat. He builds a small raft of flotation devices so that he can stay at a safe distance from the tiger. Realizing that he must feed the tiger to protect himself, Pi begins fishing, with some success. He also collects rain water for both to drink. At one point, he makes a board ladder for the tiger to climb back into the boat after it had jumped off to hunt fish. In a nighttime encounter with a breaching whale, Pi loses much of his supplies. Faced with starvation, he eats raw fish. After many days at sea, Pi realizes that he can no longer live on the tiny raft and trains the tiger Richard Parker to accept him in the boat. He also realizes that caring for the tiger is keeping him alive.After weeks longer at sea, near the end of their strength, they reach a floating island of edible plants, supporting a forest, fresh water pools, and a large population of meerkats. Both Pi and Richard Parker eat and drink freely and regain strength. But at night the island transforms into a hostile environment, with the fresh water turning acidic, digesting all the dead fish that died in the pools. The tiger returns to the lifeboat at night. Pi finds a human tooth inside a plant flower and concludes that the plants are carnivorous, requiring them to leave the island.The lifeboat eventually reaches the coast of Mexico. Finally back on land, Richard Parker stumbles away from Pi and stops at the edge of the jungle. Pi expects that the tiger will turn toward him and acknowledge him, but instead he looks into the jungle for a while and goes in. Pi, too weak to follow, lies in the sand. He is rescued by a group who carry him to hospital, but he weeps that the tiger had walked away without him.In hospital, insurance agents for the Japanese freighter come to hear his account of the incident. They find his story unbelievable, and ask him to tell them what "really" happened, if only for the credibility of their report. He answers with a less fantastic but detailed account of sharing the lifeboat with his mother, a sailor with a broken leg, and the cook. In this story, the cook kills the sailor to use him as bait and food. In a later struggle, Pi's mother pushes him to safety on a smaller raft, and the cook stabs her as she falls overboard to the sharks. Later, Pi returns to grab the knife and kills the cook.In the present, the writer notes parallels between the two stories: the orangutan was Pi's mother, the zebra was the sailor, the hyena was the cook, and Richard Parker, the tiger, was Pi himself. Pi asks him which story the writer prefers; he chooses the one with the tiger because it "is the better story", to which Pi responds, "And so it is with God". Glancing at a copy of the insurance report, the writer notices a closing comment about the remarkable feat of surviving 227 days at sea, especially with a tiger - meaning that the agents chose that story as well.
Ang Lee
Director(s)
Yann Martel
David Magee
Writer(s)
Kevin Richard Buxbaum
associate producer (as Kevin Buxbaum)
Jean-Christophe Castelli
associate producer
William M. Connor
associate producer
Dean Georgaris
executive producer
Ang Lee
producer
David Lee
co-producer
Michael J. Malone
associate producer
Gil Netter
producer
Tabrez Noorani
line producer: India
Jesse Prupas
line producer: Montreal
Pravesh Sahni
associate producer: India
David Womark
producer
Producer(s)
Mychael Danna
Composer(s)
Pi Patel
Suraj Sharma
Adult Pi Patel
Irrfan Khan
Pi Patel (11 / 12 Years)
Ayush Tandon
Pi Patel (5 Years)
Gautam Belur
Santosh Patel
Adil Hussain
Gita Patel
Tabu
Ravi Patel (7 Years)
Ayaan Khan
Ravi Patel (13 / 14 Years)
Mohd. Abbas Khaleeli
Ravi Patel (18 / 19 Years)
Vibish Sivakumar
Writer
Rafe Spall
Cook
Gérard Depardieu
Older Insurance Investigator
James Saito
Younger Insurance Investigator
Jun Naito
Priest
Andrea Di Stefano
Anandi
Shravanthi Sainath
Mamaji
Elie Alouf
Dance Master
Padmini Ramachandran
Science Teacher
T.M. Karthik
Indian History Teacher
Amarendran Ramanan
Librarian
Hari Mina Bala
Buddhist Sailor
Bo-Chieh Wang
Tsimtsum Captain (as Yi-Cheng Ko)
I-Chen Ko
Sailor (as Jian-Wei Huang)
Jian-wei Huang
Selvam
Ravi Natesan
Bully
Adyant Balaji
Bully
Chirag Agarwal
Bully
Ahan André Kamath
Bully
Om Kamath
Bully
Srilekh Katta
Anandi's Friend #1
Swati Van Rijswijk
Anandi's Friend #2
M. Keerthana
Dancer
Indumohan Poornima
Dancer
Josephine Nithya B.
Dancer
Samyuktha S.
Dancer
A. Deiva Sundari
Dancer
G. Vasantakumary
Dancer
A. Vithya
Pi's Wife
Mythili Prakash
Pi's Son
Raj Patel
Pi's Daughter
Hadiqa Hamid
Director(s)
David Magee
Writer(s)
associate producer (as Kevin Buxbaum)
Jean-Christophe Castelli
associate producer
William M. Connor
associate producer
Dean Georgaris
executive producer
Ang Lee
producer
David Lee
co-producer
Michael J. Malone
associate producer
Gil Netter
producer
Tabrez Noorani
line producer: India
Jesse Prupas
line producer: Montreal
Pravesh Sahni
associate producer: India
David Womark
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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