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Life of Pi follows Pi Patel after a freighter sinks in the Pacific and leaves him sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Adapted from Yann Martel's novel, the survival story is framed as a recollection offered to a writer, using competing versions of events to ask how memory, belief, and storytelling shape what listeners accept as truth.
Ang Lee directed David Magee's screenplay, with Suraj Sharma as the teenage Pi and Irrfan Khan as the adult narrator. 20th Century Studios gives the U.S. release date as November 21, 2012 and a 127-minute runtime, while AFI records its theatrical print at 125 minutes; the difference reflects source and master reporting rather than a separate narrative cut. In the U.S. snapshot checked October 30, 2026, the exact Hulu page requires an extra HBO Max add-on, so no base-plan or free AVOD offer qualifies under this page's strict policy.
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