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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 558
Released: February 3, 2004 |
| Our Price: $2.90 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This comedic and touching family film follows the adventures of a shy young boy (Haley Joel Osment) who is sent to spend the summer with his eccentric uncles (Michael Caine, Robert Duvall). At first shocked by his uncles' unconventional behavior that includes ordering African lions through the mail, the boy soon becomes enthralled with unraveling the mystery that has followed the uncles for years. Hearing tales of their exotic adventures involving kidnapped princesses, Arabian sheiks and lost treasure, not only brings him closer to his uncles but also teaches him what it means to believe in something... whether it's true or not.
DVD Features:
Additional Scenes
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
Deleted Scenes
Documentaries
Easter Eggs
TV Spot
Theatrical Trailer:30 Minutes of Deleted / Alternate Scenes with Optional Filmmaker Commentary Secondhand Lions: One Screenplay's Wild Ride in Hollywood - (documentary) On The Set with "Secondhand Lions" (documentary) Haley Joel Osment: An Actor Comes of Age - (documentary) Filmmaker Commentary with Director Tim McCanlies Visual Effects Comparisons Theatrical Trailer 7 TV Spots
Description of Secondhand Lions (New Line Platinum Series):
If you can get past its thick layer of syrup and molasses, Secondhand Lions reveals itself as a thoroughly decent family film that anyone can enjoy. It gets a little sappy sometimes, but there's something to be said for a movie in which Michael Caine and Robert Duvall play eccentric old brothers who take the easy approach to fishing: instead of a peaceful rod and reel, they use 12-gauge shotguns. When 14-year-old Walter (Haley Joel Osment, teetering on puberty) spends an eventful summer with his great-uncles on their vast Texas farmland (he's been dumped there by his delinquent mom, played by Kyra Sedgwick), he soon discovers they've lived lives full of adventure, excitement, passion, and mystery. Either that or they're old-time bank robbers with a long criminal record, and writer-director Tim McCanlies (who invested similar warmth into The Iron Giant) does a nice job of concealing the truth until the very end. Full of enriching lessons and homespun humor, Secondhand Lions has more substance than most family films. If you enjoyed Holes, you'll probably enjoy this movie, too. --Jeff Shannon
Secondhand Lions (New Line Platinum Series) Reviews:
Great Family Movie 
2009-11-05 - My boyfriend and I watched this movie with my grand-parents, and we all enjoyed it. Great movie - for every age!
Great Movie! 
2009-10-27 - This is a Wonderful movie about a young boy who is dumped on his unsuspecting, but wildly adverntuous uncles. As he grows, he learns the true meaning of life and what is truly important. This movie does just that, with great comedy in the evolution of the kids manhood. Great performances by an all star cast, shot in Texas. An all around funny, touching and wishful movie about how all boys should learn to be a man. Deffinately worth having in any collection. Fun for the whole family.
A Neglected Masterpiece
2009-10-22 - What a shame that this picture was so poorely promoted. It is one of the best movies ever done, anywhere. It demonstrates briliantly that wonderfull, credible works can be done without tiresome and exagerated special effects. It shows that weird has nothing to do with dirty. And most important, this is a movie about most of men being fundamentaly as God created them: good.
Upside down at 90 in the barn
2009-10-21 - Sometimes there really is buried treasure at the end of the
story about the mad uncles. In this case the treasure
was their stories about the French foreign legion
and Africa. A boy with a less than truthful mother
finds not one but two father figures in his great uncles.
I really enjoyed this movie and the lion Jasmine.
One of best movies released
2009-10-08 - So many people don't know about this movie. It is one of the best movies I've ever seen. This is a movie I would push someone to see. It's for all ages! Wonderfull!!
