Hi to everybody....sat and watched a lovely film yesterday evening called 'Secondhand Lions' starring Michael Caine and Robert Duval as two ageing adventurers now retired and living in a rundown house. Their nephew, played by Haley Joel Osment, is dumped on them by his mother who goes off and leaves him there until she returns...
It's a real family film with comedy, pathos, fun and a running mystery as to whether or not these two old timers have millions of dollars hidden somewhere on their land, and relatives and salesmen who want to get hold of some or all of it...Michael Caine and Robert Duval are excellent as the two old men, with Michael Caine relating the story of their lives to Haley Joel, who starts off being shy and lost and gradually comes to love living with them...
I can highly recommend it as a very watchable and enjoyable yarn...hope you do manage to see it sometime, it's well worth it....
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joebangles
- Tuesday, Jun. 24, 2008 @ 20:11:33
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jenray
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- Tuesday, Jun. 24, 2008 @ 21:34:58
I think Michael Caine is an excellent actor...a real presence and can be both lovable and deadly...
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philghodg
- Tuesday, Jun. 24, 2008 @ 21:54:44
Was that the young lad that was in 6th Sense?
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jenray
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- Tuesday, Jun. 24, 2008 @ 21:58:03
yes, that's right...good little actor...great big hugs...
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philghodg
- Tuesday, Jun. 24, 2008 @ 22:00:00
Thought so. He was good in that too
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playwrite27
- http://www.davidtennant.blog.co.uk
- Wednesday, Jun. 25, 2008 @ 01:15:22
Oh, I haven't seen that in ages, but it really was a great little film. Hope you have a good nite, hun. (big hugs) xx
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Never heard of it Jen, but then I don't watch films very much.
Your post did remind me of one of, to me, the great films with Michael Caine and somebody else, I think that it was in Africa and a tribe looked on him as a God, a smashing film with a sad ending.