PG | 1h 45min | Drama, Comedy | 2004
Writer-director-producer Jean-Jacques Annaud’s “Two Brothers” (2004) is for children. But adults surrendering, childlike, to its charms will relish it almost as much as kids do.
In 1920s French-colonial Cambodia, amid jungle ruins, hunter-explorer Aidan McRory (Guy Pearce) hunts for sacred statues to sell on the black market. At one ancient temple site, he confronts and kills an adult male tiger, separating its cubs, Kumal and Sangha. Kumal winds up with McRory, Sangha escapes with his mother.
Hunter-explorer Aiden McRory (Guy Pearce) saves a tiger cub, in “Two Brothers.” (MovieStillsDB)
Surprising himself, the no-nonsense McRory warms to Kumal and nurses him, but when he’s arrested by authorities, Kumal passes through a few hands before ending up in a circus run by a heartless ringmaster….