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Directed by | Wes Anderson |
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Cinematography | Robert Yeoman |
Edited by | Andrew Weisblum |
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Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $17.5 million[1] |
Box office | $35.1 million[2] |
The Darjeeling Limited is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson, which he co-produced with Scott Rudin, Roman Coppola, and Lydia Dean Pilcher, and co-wrote with Coppola and Jason Schwartzman. The film stars Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Schwartzman as three estranged brothers who agree to meet in India a year after their father's funeral for a "spiritual journey" aboard a luxury train. The cast also includes Waris Ahluwalia, Amara Karan, Wallace Wolodarsky, Barbet Schroeder, and Anjelica Huston, with Natalie Portman, Camilla Rutherford, Irrfan Khan, and Bill Murray in cameo roles.
The film was released on September 29, 2007, by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film received generally favorable reviews from critics and earned $35 million on a $17.5 million budget.[1] The film premiered at the 64th Venice International Film Festival in competition for the Golden Lion and was named among the Top Films of the Year at the 2007 NYFCO Awards.
Anderson's Hotel Chevalier, starring Schwartzman and Portman, acts as a prologue to the film.