| Secondhand Lions | | Cast : | Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment | | Director : | Tim McCanlies | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | September 19, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | February 08, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 31, 2005 | | Summary | Hey Hollwood wake up will you, this is how to make a good movie. | Content
 | It is about time a great family film came along. It was a very refreshing change to the tripe hollywood has been cranking out. This is a film the whole family can watch. No vulgar words are uttered at will. No between the sheets scenes. The story is very heartwarming. I only hope more movies of this type come out in the furture. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 26, 2005 | | Summary | Deserves more than 5 stars!! | Content
| This is another movie that went unnoticed by the critics and a majority of the movie going public. It shouldn't have. What a wonderful little love story this turned out to be! You would never guess it by the characters, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, and Haley-Joel Osment (I see dead people) but they pull it off. This is a wonderful family movie, both my kids adored it.
Caine and Duvall were wonderfully grumpy old coots which played wonderfully against Osment's innocence. The love they share between them is heartwarming. My very favorite scene in the movie is the planting of the seeds with the ending running a very close second. I still smile when I think of about it. There is plenty of adventure which seems to lure boy viewers in as well as love, family, friendship, and loyalty.
This is one story that shouldn't be missed. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 25, 2005 | | Summary | Wonderful movie!!! | Content
| The only thing that would make this movie better is if no scenes had been deleted. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | Too sugary for my taste but it did hold my interest | Content
| I rented this 2003 DVD because it starred Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. They are fine actors and I knew I would see wonderful performances. I wasn't disappointed. They are cast as two eccentric uncles to Haley Joel Osmant and the whole film plays like a fairy tale.
Supposedly the uncles have a lot of money stashed away and so they sit on their Texas farm all day chasing away salesmen. They tell tall tales about being in the foreign legion in Africa. The stories are full of romance and adventure but somewhat unbelievable. But that doesn't matter, because the boy and the uncles are getting to love and respect each other. Naturally there are conflicts. And, naturally, everything works out for the best.
This is not my kind of story. It was too "feel good" and sugary. But the acting was so good and it held my interest and so I do recommend it. And I think it would be especially appealing for children over the age of 7. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 16, 2005 | | Summary | A family movie with bite | Content
| Danger! Explosives.
Loose Rabid Attack Dogs.
Nuclear Radiation.
Turn Back Now.
The hand-drawn road signs bode well, at the movie's beginning. I remembered a similar sign I first beheld 1976, after an already tricky off-road drive in a remote part of the US; it was badly lettered:
Driver: If Your THis far, yOUr Too far.
A moment later in the movie, a Texas "Damn!" (two full syllables), from Michael Caine no less, adds interest. Both Caine and Robert Duvall have past experience in two-old-guys movies, which this one partly is, and it's cool. Enthusiasts of classic US cars may enjoy this movie. For children it could become a classic, as it's one of those now-rare things, a "family" movie with intelligence and bite. (Such charms can redeem the movie's limitations.)
Especially well drawn, I thought, are the scheming "relatives," complete with eagerly destructive little children. Though these are caricatures (as seen in Shirley Temple dramas, for instance), they are not so far from a few real people I met in the early and middle 1960s. |
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