IS ANYBODY THERE?

Guy’s respect for Caine...

Bill Milner plays a young boy that lives in an elderly home and who happens to be obsessed with death and dead people (ghosts). Why does he live there? His parents turned their house into this type of living facility to make ends meet.

Michael Caine plays an old magician who recently lost his wife. He moves into the home under protest. The boy and the old man start off as enemies, but after the boy saves Caine from committing suicide, they start to develop a friendship. Caine sees that the boy’s obsession with death has taken him away from the real world and the living. He takes it upon himself, as the last thing in his life, to make the boy fit in.

It’s a cute little coming of age tale. You get those warm little feelings all over when you watch it. Caine delivers one of his most powerful performances in years. I guess that’s what happens when you make a movie purely because of the story. I say that cause this is small budget film and Caine can not have gotten his usual paycheck.

Guy’s Rating: Did you see “About a Boy”? You probably did because everybody said that it was amazing, I didn’t. I have a hard time with Hugh Grant. This however is something I can stand behind when I say “Watch it”.

Girl's respect for Caine...

The only reason I enjoyed this movie as much as I did was because of Michael Caine. Sean Connery and him are two of the cutest old men I know, and I always take pleasure in watching their movies, whether it's shit or not.

Caine made this movie great, but there were other good things about this film besides him. Although I can't see too many similarities to "About a Boy", like Guy supposedly did, the story and characters were just as entertaining, if not more so, than that film. Maybe it's the endearing British accents, or just Caine himself in comparison to Hugh Grant, but this movie get's my two thumbs, were the other only got one of them.

The young boy was very good as exactly that, a young boy. He wasn't wiser or more mature or more special than any other kid, like a lot of movies try to make their child actors. This kid was just a kid that grew up in a not exactly normal situation, but he still acted childish, unreasonable, sneaky... All the great traits of children that I hope to avoid being around for at least another 5 or 6 years.

Girl's Rating: Worth the watch when you are bored, at home with your significant other, trying to have an inexpensive date night.