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Secondhand Lions

6.4

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Original title

Secondhand Lions

Year

2003

Running time

109 min.

Country

United States

Director

Tim McCanlies

Screenwriter

Tim McCanlies

Cast

Music

Patrick Doyle

Cinematography

Jack N. Green

Producer

New Line Cinema

Genre

Comedy. Drama

Synopsis

For 14-year-old Walter (Haley Joel Osment), his great uncles’ farm in rural Texas is the last place on earth he wants to spend the summer. Dumped off by his mother, Mae (Kyra Sedgwick), Walter is left with the eccentric Hub and Garth McCaan (Robert Duvall and Michael Caine) who are rumored to have a hidden fortune.

Critics' reviews

"Of little interest to anyone except those who thought Air Bud was too smutty."

Michael O'Sullivan: The Washington Post
"The kind of pandering family entertainment that would make even Walt Disney roll in his grave."

Jan Stuart: Newsday
"Secondhand Lions is not a great movie, but you'd have to be an old coot not to like it at least a bit."

Tom Long: Detroit News
"Awash in nostalgia, "Lions" combines a gentle coming-of-age story with swashbuckling fantasy"

Sheri Linden: The Hollywood Reporter
This is the sort of funny, humane, honorable story that families need more of, though viewers of any age should be hooked by the mystery surrounding the brothers' riches."

J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader
"The movie, though predictable and formulaic, is not that simple, although it might have been better off had it been so basic (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Claudia Puig: USA Today
"Caine and Duvall paired on screen would be worth the price of admission even if they were just reading the Yellow Pages"

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Secondhand Lions

2003

Tim McCanlies

6.4

(6,908)