Secondhand Lions (New Line Platinum Series)
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Movie Reviews of Secondhand Lions (New Line Platinum Series)
Movie Review: Secondhand Lions
Summary: 5 Stars
i found this to be a refreshing family type movie. no high speed chases with sirens screeming in this movie. a period movie about non-existant fathers and wayward mothers.Movie Review: Great film- a rarity
Summary: 5 Stars
In a world where so many films about sex and violence, this movie is the colored diamond amidst a sea of colorless ones. This is a film that you will remember. The actors are excellent, and the significance is very real- broken families, mothers who aren't really there, ostracism, finding a family, growing up, respecting and revering older ones, and you may find more themes. As a Language Arts teacher, and one that understands most of my students don't come from the conventional family, I plan on perhaps sharing this film with them. Movie Review: Good family film
Summary: 5 Stars
Secondhand Lions (New Line Platinum Series) I have really injoyed this movie. It has joy, laughter, and also sadness. But, it is well worth owning as is one of those you can watch time and time again without getting tired of it. I highly recomend it to all ages... The story line is wonderful and Michael Caine and Robert Duvall do a fantastic job of playing two Uncles that seem a little harsh at first but warm up quickly to their grand Nephew... Movie Review: A fairy-tale for adults and children alike
Summary: 5 Stars
The atmosphere of the movie changes from horror portending weirdness in the beginning ten minutes or so into a fairy-tale style romantic fantasy. Executed with good taste and enticing people to appreciate good and important things in life. Wouldn't mind viewing it again.Movie Review: A timeless movie for your top-ten list
Summary: 5 Stars
I've watched this movie several times and still love it. The basic story is of a boy, Walter (played by Haley Joel Osment) who is dumped on his great-uncles Garth and Hub (Michael Caine and Robert Duvall) because his skanky, irresponsible mother, Mae (Kyra Sedgwick), is tired of being tied down by him. Garth and Hub aren't interested in Walter, and Walter seems, at first, to be a bit too beaten down by having an unloving mother to really care much.
But gradually Walter and his great-uncles start to get to know each other and to warm to each other. One of the things that helps is that the great-uncles seem to have led some very interesting and adventurous lives. They tell stories of things they did when they were younger (as each story is being told, the movie makes the transition from narration to showing the story unfold in live action). These stories are exciting and wonderful and all have core values about life very neatly underlying them.
One of the stories is that the great-uncles accumulated a vast amount of gold, though we don't know for sure whether it was acquired the way the great-uncles tell, or through a bank robbery. And it turns out that Mae, in addition to just getting rid of Walter for a while, was also hoping that Walter would find out where the money is hidden, and so she was coldly using him for that purpose.
When Walter finds out that it is possible that none of the stories are true, Hub tells him that it doesn't matter, giving a wonderful speech about love, honor, and goodness, and about how there are things worth believing in. (A brief excerpt: "...That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that ... money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil...." Wonderful stuff. I suppose the more cynical and heart-hardened might call this syrupy or even unbelievable, but I call it core values.)
I don't want to give anything more away about the story, but I assure you it is a wonderful, warm, human story, womderfully told with great acting on the part of all three major characters (Caine, Duvall, and Osment). I love this movie and hope you will too.