My Review of Secondhand Lions
Secondhand Lions Starring Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Haley Joel Osment
An exuberant, vivacious and a very engaging movie with a great comic touch and a wonderfully oddball story.
A young boy Walter (Haley Joel Osment) is left by his flighty and irresponsible mother Mae in the care of her distant cousins, two grumpy rich elderly brothers, Hub (Robert Duvall) and Garth (Michael Caine) under the pretext that she’s going to study in college (eventually the boy finds out she lied). The brothers, according to the local rumors, have disappeared a long time ago and returned after many years with a load of money.
Greedy Mae instructs Walter to find out where the money is while she’s away. All Walter’s pleas to take him with her are being rejected as selfish and so he is forced to stay with his “uncles” who, quite frankly, at first seem to be way too eccentric and even a bit frightening, at least to the boy. The uncles’ real relation to Walter is never clear and it’s not important.
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