Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Is Anybody There?





" THE MARVELOUS SIR MICHAEL CAINE GIVES ONE
OF THE BEST PERFORMANCES OF HIS CAREER."

STEPHEN FARBER, HOLLY WOOD LIFE






Legendary actor Sir Michael Caine teams up with youngster Bill Milner in Is Anybody There?, the new film by director John Crowley. Caine plays an aging man forced to join a retirement home where he meets Milner and infuses in him a love of magic. Together they rediscover the good things about life, and that there's magic in the world after all. Caine proves that he can be a tough guy or a nice guy, depending on the movie he chooses to be in. Take a look after the jump.









" Brilliant comic moments...
Deeply moving. Caine at his best "



Director John Crowley
Story
Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents. Whilst his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat, and his father copes with the onset of mid-life crisis, Edward is busy tape-recording the elderly residents to try and discover what happens when they die. Increasingly obsessed with ghosts and the afterlife, Edward's is a rather lonely existence until he meets Clarence, the latest recruit to the home, a retired magician with a liberating streak of anarchy. Is There Anybody There? tells the surprising, touching story of this odd couple - a boy and an old man - facing life together, with Edward learning to live in the moment and Clarence coming to terms with the past.



MICHAEL Caine pulls another winner out of the hat as Clarence, a retired magician in a sleepy seaside town.


He moves into a care home run by Anne-Marie Duff and David Morrissey, whose epic mullet deserves some kind of Bafta for most offensive hair.

Still grieving for his wife, Clarence strikes up an unlikely friendship with the home owners' shy son (Bill Milner from Son Of Rambow), who's obsessed with ghosts, and the pair go on minor adventures together.

So far, so Heartbeat. But thanks to the superb turns from Michael and young Bill, plus a witty, well-observed script, this is a real slow burner of a film-incredibly moving but brightened by some top comic moments. Best of all, the mushy stuff is kept mercifully in check, even during the emotional climax.

BY ROBBIE COLLIN, NEWS OF THE WORLD


" TRIUMPHANT! A TRUE GEM OF A FILM."
PETE HAMMOND, HOLLYWOOD.COM

All Photo by Big Beach Films' Is Anybody There? (2009)


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