Earth (1998)
Deepa Mehta directed this stirring tale -- the second movie in a trilogy preceded by Fire and followed by Water -- about the religious and civil wars that broke out in India and Pakistan in the 1947 battle to gain independence from the British. Earth is based on the autobiographical novel Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa and is told through the eyes of a little girl, Lenny (Maia Sethna), who has one leg in a brace. (Netflix)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Deepa Mehta
Written By: Deepa Mehta, Bapsi Sidhwa
Starring: Gulshan Grover, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Aamir Khan, Raghuvir Yadav, Javed Jaffrey, Nandita Das, Kitu Gidwani, Eric Peterson, Rahul Khanna, Maia Sethna, Babby Singh, Kabir Chowdhury
Genre: Drama
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Earth belongs to 15 collections
1. Female Directors (public: moderated by djross - 87 stars)
2. Based on a Book (public: moderated by iconogassed - 18 stars)
3. Women+ (public: moderated by paulofilmo - 18 stars)
4. Based On Novel (public: moderated by tathiel - 7 stars)
5. 1940s period film (public: moderated by djross - 7 stars)
6. Books by Women that were made into Movies (public: moderated by Dunstan-xxx - 4 stars)
7. Trilogy (public: moderated by frederic_g54 - 3 stars)
8. Canadian director (public: moderated by iconogassed - 2 stars)
9. India (public: moderated by djross - 1 star)
10. films mentioned in Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema ~p~ (public: moderated by 5Z5qjRCfM2 - 1 star)
11. Religious Tensions (public: moderated by iceblox)
12. Metacritic - Generally Favorable Reviews (public: moderated by sengir)
13. Coheed's Films I Need To See Or Try To Track Down (private: Coheed - 3 stars)
14. 1998: Year in Review (private: polanski28 - 1 star)
15. Read the Book and Seen the Movie (private: SirStuckey)
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| May 02, 2019 |  |
hotsake | 65 61% |
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The history about what happened is much more interesting than the story we are given here. Most of the characters have little depth and mostly the film is just about one or more of the characters standing around and watching the tragedy unfold while offering bits of commentary. Since I didn't find the characters themselves interesting I had a hard time getting invested. This was a terrible time period full of tragedy ... [Full Review]
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| May 26, 2010 |  |
SirStuckey | 80 78% |
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An interesting perspective on the wars between India and Pakistan. The part of the plot that showed how a group of friends with different religions/races/backgrounds essentially splitting along with the war was especially interesting to me and were a great way of looking at it. Glad I got to see it in a class because I never would have even heard of it otherwise.
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| Jan 24, 2010 |  |
vheujge | 53 36% |
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Tries too hard to be intelligent and artsy and leaves little impact overall.
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| Mar 20, 2007 |  |
CinematicESP | 75 31% |
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A decent allegory with likeable characters. Nothing really stood out though.
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| Nov 07, 2020 |  |
drdutw | 60 44% |
| Oct 26, 2020 |  |
TheShiznit | 58 74% |
| Apr 23, 2020 |  |
jeff_v | 60 22% |
| Nov 14, 2019 | flipperrbm | 8 93% |
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| Aug 10, 2019 | amat | 90 94% |
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| Jul 22, 2019 | knives | 70 36% |
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| Dec 25, 2017 |  |
quente | 74 32% |
| Jun 19, 2017 |  |
avgcrtckr | 63 73% |
| Jun 19, 2017 |  |
filmaffinity | 74 92% |
| Jun 19, 2017 | AHP | 70 34% |
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| Mar 05, 2017 | ashutosh864 | 74 76% |
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| Dec 27, 2016 | shivarising | 75 64% |
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| Dec 01, 2016 | nunobar | 40 14% |
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| Sep 30, 2016 | katsuben | 1 2% |
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| May 09, 2016 | carobbean | 93 92% |
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| Dec 15, 2015 |  |
robot2xl | 73 48% |
| Jul 08, 2015 | catalogue | 100 89% |
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| Apr 30, 2015 | TejasNair | 70 56% |
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| Apr 24, 2015 | si-sak | 70 73% |
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| Apr 02, 2015 |  |
Fergenaprido | 78 76% |
| Feb 06, 2015 |  |
MEHRANAFSHAR | 79 74% |
| Jan 29, 2015 | LosWochos | 87 52% |
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| Dec 26, 2014 | roger-ebert | 30 53% |
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| Nov 04, 2014 | nequient | 89 78% |
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| Oct 28, 2014 |  |
The Pirate | 76 45% |
| May 25, 2014 |  |
micmac | 59 39% |
| Mar 13, 2014 |  |
Dorkovsky | 3 24% |
| Dec 12, 2013 | heath_cliff | 70 37% |
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| Sep 29, 2012 | GoodMovie | 50 32% |
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| Sep 25, 2012 | pcolangelo | 100 77% |
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| Sep 02, 2012 |  |
Elisheva | 80 51% |
| Aug 18, 2012 |  |
psych0naut (The Socialist Standard) | 80 87% |
| May 25, 2012 | bat-cow | 87 85% |
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| Apr 29, 2012 | Bondo | 86 89% |
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| Aug 09, 2011 |  |
Meta Critic | 71 76% |
| Feb 08, 2011 |  |
lostty | 74 41% |
| Jan 18, 2011 | bahador | 79 18% |
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| Sep 21, 2010 |  |
ldpfilm | 75 75% |
| Jan 31, 2010 |  |
Mr. Nobody | 16 94% |
| Oct 11, 2009 |  |
luc | 67 53% |
| Sep 03, 2009 | filmcricket | 69 72% |
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| Aug 25, 2009 |  |
flowing | 7 0% |
| Dec 16, 2008 |  |
imdb | 76 87% |
| Dec 01, 2008 | recommender1 | 90 81% |
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| Nov 23, 2008 | muku25 | 50 39% |
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| Apr 01, 2008 | penguinbob31 | 70 28% |
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| Mar 18, 2008 | RNG | 99 99% |
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| Sep 22, 2007 |  |
bleepnik | 72 70% |
| Aug 14, 2007 | stillfuchsia | 90 93% |
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| Aug 14, 2007 |  |
walkabout | 60 38% |
| Aug 14, 2007 |  |
laika | 64 32% |
| Mar 20, 2007 |  |
weirdyoda | 84 69% |
| Dec 11, 2006 |  |
yap | 64 39% |
| Average Percentile 58.73% from 57 Ratings |  |