Secondhand Lions
by Tim McCanlies
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Actor: Haley Joel Osment, Kyra Sedgwick, Michael Caine, Nicky Katt, Robert DuvallDirector: Tim McCanlies
Brand: New Line Home Entertainment
Writer: Tim McCanlies
Producer: Amy Sayres
Producer: Corey Sienega
Producer: David Kirschner
Producer: Janis Rothbard Chaskin
Producer: Joe Dishner
Producer: Karen Loop
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-03
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Product features:
- 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.
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DVD Review: Ultimate Fable of the Bush II Administration oh yeah
Summary: 1 Stars
This is the ultimate fable of the Bush II administration. George W. [Dub] Bush (Robert Duvall) and Dick [Carp] Cheney (Michael Caine) are two extremely wealthy old-codger brothers who live on a dilapidated ranch in Texas. Joe Public (Haley Joe Osmet) has been left in their care by his criminally negligent self-centered mother, Hillary Clinton (Kyra Sedgwick). She wants Joe to work his way into Bush and Cheney's steely hearts so he (and thereby, she) can inherit their billions (or find out where it is hidden so they can steal it.). His first night on the ranch, Young Joe finds evidence of the precious princess Arabica Petrolea under a layer of desert sand at the bottom of an old travel trunk.
At first, the hard-nosed Dub doesn't want any part of Joe, "I'm not cooking for you, You'll have to feed yourself." Carp, though, is somewhat more thoughtful and caring.
Carp explains to Joe that long ago Dub had convinced their parents, H.W. and Barbara, to bankroll them to travel overseas to Europe to seek their fortunes. The brothers don't realize it at the time, but it's the eve of World War 1, and they are soon Shanghaied into the French Foreign Legion for duty in the Middle East. In close combat, Dub proves his bravery time and time again. Later, Dub leads tens of thousands of men into victorious battles throughout the newly-independent Arab lands. There, he meets and falls madly, passionately in love with Princess Arabica Petrolea (Emmanuelle Vaugier), the only woman he ever loved or (he vows) ever will.
As any fable would have it, Arabica is already promised as the umpteenth wife to an evil Arab sheik, Osaddama bin' Ridden, who already has a huge harem of much coveted beauties just like Princess Petrolea. Dub, liberates Petrolea from her greedy despotic master and in retaliation, and the sheik puts a price of ten thousand pieces of gold on our hero's head. Carp naturally decides to capitalize on the situation, and disguises himself as a bounty hunter and turns Dub in for the loot. Soon after, easily laying bloody waste to a half dozen Arab guards, Dub withdraws from the dungeon and redeploys himself in the heart of the palace, the sleeping sheik's bedouir. A short sword fight later leaves beardy Osaddama cowering on the floor. Magnanimous Dub tells the wretch, "Twice I've held your life in my hands, and twice I have given it back to you; the next time, your life is mine." This decisive show of strength wins the sheik's respect and the assassination attempts on Dub cease immediately. What's more, Osaddama gives his blessing and showers Dub and Petrolea with riches as a wedding present.
Dub Bush and his passion, Princess Arabica Petrolea live happily ever after, but not for long -sadly, Petrolea dies in childbirth without producing.
Hillary shows up with an abusive boyfriend, a private dick named Bill and tries to get Joe to spill the beans about where the cash is stashed. He knows, but keeps the secret even after Bill tries a few enhanced interrogation techniques. Later, Bill ends up listening to Dub's "what it means to be a man speech" from inside a body cast.
But law is law and must be obeyed no matter how rich and powerful one (or two) is, and Hillary is the legal custodian of Joe. So Hillary, Bill and Joe drive off together. However, soon young Joe Public escapes by jumping out of the speeding car. He's not hurt badly and Hillary and Joe finally have a heart to heart in the middle of a bridge (possibly between right and wrong or maybe Right and Left.) Joe begs her to, please, just once, do what is best for him. And in a moment of weakness, strength or revelation, she relents and sends him running back to good ol' uncles Dub and Carp. And they all live happily ever after.
Years later, probably November 9, 2010, Joe gets a call from the county sheriff: uncles Dub Bush and Carp Cheney have died in an accident. Ol' Dub and Carp finally got that junk bi-plane up in the air, took a couple passes over the ranch and flew it upside down into a building, their own barn that still sat atop their fortune, killing both Dub and Carp instantly, painlessly. No towering inferno, no fire at all. No bodies dropping like rain.
Their lives were not for naught. Thanks to the adventures of Dub and Carp, the Middle East is free, friendly, democratic, peaceful and prosperous and will continue to be so for at least the next two generations. For while Joe is reading his uncle's will at the crash site, a helicopter touches down and out steps the grandson and little great-grandson of Osaddama. Osaddama III and IV were in Texas on oil business and heard about the deaths on CNN, and {from Wikipedia} "...and thought they might be the two courageous Americans that his grandfather (the sheik) had told him about long ago. Walter says that, yes, they were, and the two are happy to realize that the stories which had inspired them for so long were true-- that the two men "really lived."
So, there you have it. Tim Mc Canlies has done an excellent job of creating this multifaceted fable by seamlessly recounting the Bush II administration years inside out, opposite and in reverse chronological order. The only real glitch is that, in reality, no oil has ever been produced from Bush's adventure in Iraq. My guess is that since this movie came out in 2003, that Mc Canlies had predicted that great quantities of oil would flow to America, and to remain true to the `reverse mirror' structure, had Petrolea die without producing offspring. However, this is made up for with the trap-shooting scene, which actually prophesied Vice-President Cheney's 2006 peppering of a man's face with buckshot.
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?MPAA Rating: PG
?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 109 minutes
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