The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Keywords: 1970s , best-picture-nominee , cargo-ship , exhilarated , faith , family-loss , flying-fish , hyena , injured-animal , lifeboat , loss-of-family , loss-of-loved-one , magic-realism , meerkat , orangutan , sea , storm-at-sea , survival , teen-fantasy , teenage-boy , teenage-protagonist , told-in-flashback , vibrant , wreckage , young-boy , zebra , zookeeper