Secondhand Lions
September 19, 2003 in theaters
The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
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"Hub McCann's still got some fight left in him."
DID YOU KNOW?
Haley Joel Osment was cast as Walter specifically because director Tim McCanlies wanted an actor who could play quiet, interior emotion without heavy dialogue.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
A warm, unhurried film about a shy boy deposited with two eccentric great-uncles and the improbable summer that follows -- Tim McCanlies writes and directs with a storyteller's patience, letting the tall tales accumulate until they become something genuinely moving. Robert Duvall and Michael Caine are magnificent together, making Walter's transformation feel earned rather than engineered. It is the kind of film that gets called old-fashioned as a dismissal, when in fact its confidence in its own pace and warmth is exactly what makes it hold up.
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