Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Secondhand lions


This movie is about when Walter (Haley Joel Osment) as a kid had to stay with his 2 crazy uncles Gar (Michael Caine) and Hub (Robert Duvall) over the summer while his mother is away. Lots of people want their money. They had no telephone and no television. Walter just hanged out with 2 uncles. On Walter's first day, 2 uncles scared 3 salesman away with their rifles. Every night, Hub goes outside remembering the past but on the first night, he was sleepwalking pretending to fight someone. On the second day, the lawyer came for the money and when Walter ran away upset, he tried calling his mother but his mother lied about where she is. A flashback is remembering the past. This movie is one of my favorites because of the story about Hub, the female lion that they kept, the life with Walter staying with his 2 uncles, and more. 2 uncles in the movie started buying for Walter like a sling shot and they bought plant seeds like corn. They now kept the lion and named it Jasmine. Jasmine is a very old lion and a good friend to the 2 uncles and Walter. On the last day, will almost, his mother came with her evil boyfriend that lied to Walter that the 2 uncles stories were fake, I'm not sure if this is true. When the bad guy is smacking Walter while asking "Where's the money?" Jasmine comes for a rescue by attacking him. After the attack, the lion died and the bad guy is injured. Almost to the end of the movie, Walter decides to stay with his 2 uncles and grow up there. At the end of the movie takes place when Walter's a grown up a man and his 2 uncles died in a plane crash when they were riding it all the way to their shed. Walter will always remember them and will never forget it. This movie starts off in the medium shot which are Gar and Hub riding on a plane. It ended on a long shot when Gar, Hub, and Walter goes back in the house. I give this rating a 100 because of Walter's wonderful life with his 2 uncles and the adventures that happened in the movie.

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