Director Ang Lee creates a groundbreaking movie event about a young man who survives a disaster at sea and is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an amazing and unexpected connection with another survivor...a fearsome Bengal tiger.
After a childhood spent in Pondicherry in India, Pi Patel, 17, embarks with his family for Canada where a new life awaits him. But his fate is turned upside down by the spectacular sinking of the freighter in the open sea. He finds himself the only survivor aboard a lifeboat. Alone, or almost... Richard Parker, splendid and ferocious Bengal tiger is also on the trip. The survival instinct of the two castaways will take them on an extraordinary odyssey during which Pi will have to develop his ingenuity and demonstrate unsuspected courage to survive this incredible adventure.