A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
The Lunchbox has generally received very positive reviews.
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The Lunchbox was released in 2013 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 301 reviews, giving The Lunchbox (2013) an average rating of 78%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 83%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 76%.
With a score of 78%, The Lunchbox is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2013, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2013 with similar scores include films like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Inside Llewyn Davis and Philomena.
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