Life of Pi (film) supports his desire to grow, but his rationalist father tries to secularize him. Pi's family owns a zoo, and Pi takes interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After Pi gets dangerously close to Richard Parker, his father forces him to witness the tiger killing a goat. When Pi is 16, his father announces that they must move to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the animals. The family books passage with the animals on a Japanese freighter. During a storm, the ship founders while Pi is on deck. He tries to find his
Life of Pi (film) the original novel was re-released in a movie tie-in edition. This was later followed by the release of "The Making of Life of Pi: A Film, a Journey", a book by Jean-Christophe Castelli that details how "Life of Pi" was brought to the big screen. "Life of Pi" had a wide release in the United States on November 21, 2012, in both traditional and 3D viewing formats. It was originally scheduled to be released on December 14, 2012, but when "" was announced for the same release date, "Life of Pi" was postponed a week. It was then shifted a