Little Buddha

Part Buddhist history, a metaphor about the tragedy of Tibetans in exile, and a religious tour de force, in Little Buddha, Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning follow-up to The Sheltering Sky, a Buddhist monk, Lama Norbu (Ying Ruocheng), believes that a 10-year-old American boy, Jesse (Alex Wiesendanger), is the reincarnation of his spiritual teacher, Lama Dorje. Jesse's father, Dean (Chris Isaak, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me), and mother, Lisa (Bridget Fonda, Jackie Brown), are dubious, but following his business partner's suicide, a transformed Dean relents and allows his son to travel to Bhutan. However, there are two other children who the monk thinks may also be the reincarnation of Lama Dorje. Featuring Keanu Reeves as Siddhartha.