The Darjeeling Limited

3.60
    The Darjeeling Limited
    2007

    Synopsis

    Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray).

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    Cast

    • Owen WilsonFrancis
    • Adrien BrodyPeter
    • Jason SchwartzmanJack
    • Amara KaranRita
    • Wallace WolodarskyBrendan
    • Waris AhluwaliaThe Chief Steward
    • Irrfan KhanThe Father
    • Barbet SchroederThe Mechanic
    • Camilla RutherfordAlice
    • Bill MurrayThe Businessman

    Recommendations

    • 83

      Entertainment Weekly

      This is familiar psychological as well as stylistic territory for Anderson after "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums." But there's a startling new maturity in Darjeeling, a compassion for the larger world that busts the confines of the filmmaker's miniaturist instincts.
    • 80

      The New York Times

      The Darjeeling Limited amounts finally to a high-end, high-toned tourist adventure. I don’t mean this dismissively; it would be hypocritical of me to deny the delights of luxury travel to faraway lands. And Mr. Anderson’s eye for local color — the red-orange-yellow end of the spectrum in particular — is meticulous and admiring.
    • 70

      Variety

      Inventively staged picture should satisfy the upscale, youth and cult auds Anderson has developed, though it's unlikely to draw significantly better than his earlier work.
    • 70

      Newsweek

      A return to form after the flat "Life Aquatic," Darjeeling has a lightweight, coloring-book charm that deepens and darkens after these odd, privileged ducks are thrown off the train.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      I was moved by Darjeeling, flaws and all, but if my job is to explain why, I find it difficult for reasons that are none of my business. From the minute Wilson walks onscreen, face covered in scars, eyes full of trouble, Darjeeling is warped by the gravitas of his recent suicide attempt.
    • 67

      The A.V. Club

      The men are fuzzily defined and the film feels incomplete. The devil may be in the details, but for the first time, Anderson's obsession with them has caused him to lose sight of the bigger picture.
    • 50

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Hit and miss, but its tone of lyric melancholy is remarkably sustained.
    • 50

      New York Daily News

      Wilson, Brody and Schwartzman have their charms, but the script gives them little to work with. Anderson and his co-writers have come up with an ordinary road movie.

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