Is Anybody There?
Crit
I seem to say this a lot: thoroughly predictable, overly sentimental, but redeemed by the remarkable performances of _______ and _______. This time fill in the blanks with Michael Caine as the guiltily bereaved codger and formerly Amazing magician Clarence and Bill Milner as the death-obsessed young loner Edward, oppressed by having to live in an old-folks' home (and there's no point euphemizing it to "retirement community" or "managed-care facility"--it's an old-folks' home). The two begin as mutual antagonists, but then . . . oh, I don't want to spoil it for you. But suffice it to say that growth and learning ensue.
Milner, who also starred in Son of Rambow, is such a dead ringer for Nicholas Hoult that I thought they must be the vanguard of an English family of Culkins.
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