Is Anybody There?

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Is Anybody There? 12A Fri 5, Wed 10 June 8.30pm Sat 6 June 5.30pm Sun 7 June 8pm Tues 9, Thur 11 June 6pm Wed 10 June 2.30pm Dir. John Crowley, UK, 2008, 94 mins. Cast. Michael Caine, Bill Milner, Anne-Marie Duff, Thelma Barlow. Sir Michael Caine gives one of the finest performances of his career as a retired magician who reluctantly enters a family-run care home. Set in a seaside English town circa 1987, the film charts the unlikely friendship that develops between Caine's proud, acerbic old performer and the death-obsessed young boy (played by Son of Rambow's Bill Milner). The film has a rich humour as well as a rigorous honesty to its portrait of different lives colliding under one roof. Is Anybody There? tells a charming story about growing up and growing old, and the unpredictable adventures that happen along the way.