The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) Reviews & Ratings

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind reviews

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind holds a 7.9/10 average from 1,923 TMDB ratings.

This is a great looking film depicting the abject poverty, despite their best efforts, of a subsistence farming community in Malawi. The cinematography is glorious as we follow the Kamkwamba family's struggles to educate their children and feed themselves at the same time - in the face of some pretty brutal government corruption and a severe drought. Son "William" (Maxwell Simba) is thirteen, and he has more than an…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

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