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Title: Is Anybody There? (2008)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Bill Milner | ... | Edward | |
| Anne-Marie Duff | ... | Mum | |
| Ralph Riach | ... | Clive | |
| Linzey Cocker | ... | Tanya | |
| Elizabeth Spriggs | ... | Prudence | |
| Leslie Phillips | ... | Reg | |
| Sylvia Syms | ... | Lilian | |
| Rosemary Harris | ... | Elsie | |
| David Morrissey | ... | Dad | |
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Thelma Barlow | ... | Ena |
| Peter Vaughan | ... | Bob | |
| Carl McCrystal | ... | Undertaker 1 | |
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Andrew Turner | ... | Undertaker 2 |
| Michael Caine | ... | Clarence | |
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Ollie Kaiper-Leach | ... | Barry (as Oliver Leach) |
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. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat, and his father copes with the on-set of a 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. This movie tells the 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.
In his fifty,or so years since he had an uncredited role in a now long forgotten British film,Michael Caine has made a name for himself in British cinema. 'Is There Anybody There' will certainly cement his reputation that much further. Granted,he has acted in his share of stinkers, but the good/superb films out weighs them. For this outing, Caine is Clarence,a retired Magician who has just moved into a nursing home,on England's seacoast sometime in the later half of the 1980's. A 10 year old boy,who is obsessed with death & ghosts has a bad introduction with Clarence,who comes off as the typical grouchy old man who just wants to be left alone. Over a period of time,the boy learns some valuable life lessons about age. Do the two of them bond a friendship? What I admired about this film that it doesn't paint the elderly as something to be pitied or feared. The film is rounded out by a cast of mostly unknown British actors (at least by me,anyway,but it didn't diminish the film one bit). A screenplay that equally mixes humour,drama & pathos makes for a sparkling cocktail of a film that will have the viewer exiting the cinema feeling good. Rated PG-13 by the MPAA,this film contains some salty language,adult situations & a horrific (but darkly humorous)image of a magic trick gone horribly wrong.