Coming soon: Is Anybody There?
Set in a sleepy British seaside town in the 1980s, Is Anybody There? tells the story of a morbid, bookish 10-year-old boy whose parents have turned their house into a retirement home. While his mother (Duff) struggles to keep the business afloat and his father (Morrissey) copes with the onset of a mid-life crisis, Edward (Milner) becomes increasingly obsessed with the afterlives of the home’s elderly residents, following them around with a tape-recorder to capture the sound of the soul as it escapes the mortal coil...
But Edward’s macabre behaviour is cut short by the arrival of “The Amazing” Clarence (Sir Michael Caine), an anarchic retired magician and grieving widower who is determined to age disgracefully. As an unlikely friendship blossoms between them, the old man comes to terms with his past, the child masters his fear of the future, and both learn to seize the day.
Certificate: 12A
Running time: 94 minutes
Release Date: 1 May 2009
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Directed by
John Crowley
Starring
Sir Michael Caine
David Morrissey
Anne-Marie Duff
Bill Milner
Elizabeth Spriggs
Leslie Phillips
Peter Vaughan
Rosemary Harris
Thelma Barlow
Sylvia Syms
Ralph Ineson
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