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Is Anybody There?

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United Kingdom · 2009
Rated PG-13 · 1h 35m
Director John Crowley
Starring Michael Caine, Bill Milner, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff
Genre Drama

A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

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Village Voice by

Even Crowley, who seems to have a knack with overloaded material, can't quite bring the thing in for a safe landing in all the slush.

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NPR by Bob Mondello

All of this is at once predictable and implausible -- a two-hander of a story so overplotted and overpopulated that by the time it's winding up, the question isn't so much Is Anybody There? as it is, "Why on earth are so many bodies here?"

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New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier

More deft than it first appears, director John Crowley's gentle-but-not-sappy drama features another late-day masterpiece-in-miniature from Michael Caine.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen

While Caine and young Milner make for amusing adversaries, it's nice to see Crowley paying respect to his elders by populating the retirement home with a number of familiar faces, including those belonging to Rosemary Harris, Sylvia Syms and longtime "Coronation Street" resident Thelma Barlow.

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The New York Times by Stephen Holden

What balances the movie is Mr. Caine's exceptional portrayal of old age as the accumulation of a lifetime's experience. In his performance the child, the youthful rogue and the forgetful codger all live at once.

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