Is Anybody There? 2008 Torrent
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A lonely boy living with his parents' A nursing home explores an obsession with the afterlife through his friendship with an elderly wizard. Elizabeth Spriggs’ (Prudence) final film. Died during post-production. Some think the father’s mustache at the party is a continuity error because he shaved it off that morning. It’s a costume party and obviously Dad is wearing a fake mustache with his costume. Edward: [Reads tombstone] “Samuel Peet. Not dead. Just sleeping.” Clarence: Huh. He gets upset when he wakes up. Introducing Siskel & Ebert & movies: 17 Again/State of Play/Grey Gardens/Is Anybody There?/Earth (2009). The Strange World of Arthur C Clarke by Alan Hawkshaw Released by ITV Productions / EMI Music Publishing Ltd Courtesy of ITV Productions Ltd. Little movies like “Is Anybody There?” usually aren’t there, at least in terms of box office impact. This may have the potential to come back because of Sir Michael Caine’s role as a nursing home resident in 1980s England. Caine adds a bit of movie magic to the former magician – a cynicism with pathos and one of the greatest movie voices of all time. He teaches tricks to an equally eccentric 10-year-old boy, and the little guy entertains us and Caine with his project, capturing the deathly air of the dying inhabitants and the action that follows. That these two interesting characters can illuminate this dark landscape of death and despair is a tribute to the magic of the movie actor and to the movies themselves, however small, to the colossal American blockbusters.