Summary
Old people sure are funny, especially when they're demented. They walk around naked, flirt, sing children's songs and then - get this - die! (And at the most inconvenient times, too.)
That's a cynic's response to "Is Anybody There?," a BBC Films production that - to my surprise and pleasure - eventually pierced my cynic's armor (and perhaps my better judgment). The film is sentimental and predictable, but it manages to overcome the potential deadliness of its "cute" old-folks'-home setting and the programmatic uplift of its theme (end-of-his-rope curmudgeon teaches ghost-obsessed whippersnapper "to make contact with the living"), thanks to the pictorial tastefulness of director John Crowley and, especially, a brace of fine performances.See the full content of this document
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Timeless Charm in Tale of Aging
Michael Caine - looking uncharacteristically scruffy if still rather remarkable for 76 - stars...
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