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  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Stony Island Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Stony Island Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Christmas 1987 marks the one-year anniversary of Lark Hall’s opening for business as an old age home in an English seaside town. But ten-year-old Edward isn’t much in the mood to celebrate. He has had to give up his room; and his Mum and Dad don’t have as much time for him as they used to, overwhelmed as they are with the day-to-day mana...

Directed By: John Crowley

Written By: Peter Harness

  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Stony Island Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2009
  • PG-13
  • Stony Island Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m

Is Anybody There?

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
54
User Score Generally Favorable
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Summary Christmas 1987 marks the one-year anniversary of Lark Hall’s opening for business as an old age home in an English seaside town. But ten-year-old Edward isn’t much in the mood to celebrate. He has had to give up his room; and his Mum and Dad don’t have as much time for him as they used to, overwhelmed as they are with the day-to-day mana...

Directed By: John Crowley

Written By: Peter Harness

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
54
47% Positive
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47% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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47% Positive
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It is also hard not to see remnants of a younger Michael Caine -- beautifully seductive and enigmatic all those years ago in "Alfie." He has said his wife cried when she saw the performance; you understand why.
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75
A kid-meets-curmudgeon comedy that transcends its formulaic skeleton thanks both to the veteran actor's charm and a smarter-than-average screenplay.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
63
You don't need a Ouija board to suss out where all this is heading, but Is Anybody There? counteracts its deficiencies -- predictability, sentimentality -- with a healthy dose of dark humor.
By Connie Ogle FULL REVIEW
60
Caine is magnificent, and the film is worth a look for his contribution alone. But Milner is a promising actor, too, and the pairing of young and old is believable and occasionally very moving.
By Philip Kennicott FULL REVIEW
50
Requires us to repress any thoughts about stale material and keep Caine's heartfelt performance front and center.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
45
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?"
By Bob Mondello FULL REVIEW
30
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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Production Company BBC Film, Big Beach, Heyday Films
Release Date Apr 17, 2009
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating PG-13
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Website http://www.isanybodytheremovie.com/
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Awards

London Critics Circle Film Awards
• 1 Nomination
Writers' Guild of Great Britain
• 1 Nomination

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