Monday, January 21, 2013

Second Hand Lions

This is a feel good movie about a kid, Walter who is left at a ranch by his mother to spend time with her great uncles, fraternal twins Garth and Hub.  Garth and Hub are eccentrics and their relatives believe they have huge amount of wealth stowed away somewhere in their ancient house.  Walter's mother Mae intends him to locate this place so that they can get away with the money, buy a house and settle down.

Walter is a lonely kid, who knows his mother is a liar and therefore does not believe her.  In fact he doesn't easily believe anyone as all he heard from his childhood is lies from his mother.  The eccentric grand uncles take a liking for Walter and Walter gets from Garth and Hub what he never got from his own mother, affection and a stable home.

The movie provides many light moments mainly due to the eccentric nature of the uncles such as shooting at salesman, ordering anything from a glider to a yacht or even a lion to keep on their ranch.  The performance of the trio, that is Walter (Haley Joe Osment), Garth (Michael Kane) and Hub (Robert Duvall) raises the movie to a different level altogether.  Definitely a must watch movie.   

3 comments:

saakshi said...

Interesting, would like to see.

Anonymous said...

Interesting. Have not heard of this film. Must get my hands on it. Thanks for sharing, Deekay.

Unknown said...

@saakshi........yepp...it is a must watch movie....wats up?

@subho...........yes Bhai u will love the movie