Factory sealed DVD</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Director Ang Lee creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a tragic disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While marooned on a lifeboat?? he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with the ship's only other survivor...a fearsome Bengal tiger.</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>There are only so many filmmakers fearless or foolhardy enough to tackle a challenging novel?? like Yann Martel's <i>Life of Pi</i>?? but adaptation specialist Ang Lee (<i>Brokeback Mountain</i>) was well positioned to take it on. As a structuring device?? he uses an interview between a journalist (Rafe Spall) and Pi Patel (<i>The Namesake</i>'s Irrfan Khan)?? a Montreal immigrant with an unusual back story. As he tells the writer?? his parents oversaw a zoo in French-Indian Pondicherry?? and he found himself drawn to the Bengal tiger?? Richard Parker--the name resulted from a clerical error--but his father (Adil Hussain) warned him to stay away. On his own?? Pi became entranced by Islam?? Hinduism?? and Catholicism?? which comes in handy when his family relocates to Canada by freighter and a br