Lionheart (2018) on Netflix
Adaeze Obiagu hopes to run Lionheart, her father's bus company, once Chief Ernest Obiagu cannot manage it. He names his brother Godswill instead, and the two have to work together.
- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb5.7/101,608 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes100%
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Plot summary
At Lionheart, the bus company her father, Chief Ernest Obiagu, owns, Adaeze Obiagu is director of logistics and operations. She wants to take over from him when his health no longer lets him run it, but he asks his younger brother Godswill, who manages the Owerri headquarters, to take his place instead. Adaeze and Godswill must work together to pull Lionheart out of debt and to keep it away from Igwe Pascal, whose IG Motors wants to acquire it. Onyinye works as Adaeze's personal assistant, Samuel Akah heads engineering services at the firm, and Adaeze's brother Obiora is an up-and-coming musician.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lionheart (2018)
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- Lionheart was the first film Nigeria ever submitted to the Oscars, entered for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but the academy disqualified it on 4 November 2019 because most of the dialogue is in English and only about ten minutes is in Igbo.
- Genevieve Nnaji's Lionheart was acquired by Netflix on 7 September 2018, making it the first Netflix original film produced in Nigeria.
