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Is Anybody There?

Country: UK, Language: English, 94 mins

  • Director: John Crowley
  • Writer: Peter Harness
  • Producer: Rosie Alison; David Heyman

CGiii Comment

A gentle film with a sublime moment of hilarity.

Beautifully done.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Set in 1980s seaside England, this is the story of Edward, an unusual ten year old boy growing up in an old people's home run by his parents. Whilst his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat, and his father copes with the onset of mid-life crisis, Edward is busy tape-recording the elderly residents to try and discover what happens when they die. Increasingly obsessed with ghosts and the afterlife, Edward's is a rather lonely existence until he meets Clarence, the latest recruit to the home, a retired magician with a liberating streak of anarchy. Is Anybody There? tells the story of this odd couple - a boy and an old man - facing life together, with Edward learning to live in the moment and Clarence coming to terms with the past.

Cast & Characters

Anne-Marie Duff as Mum;
Ralph Riach as Clive;
Linzey Cocker as Tanya;
Elizabeth Spriggs as Prudence;
Leslie Phillips as Reg;
Sylvia Syms as Lilian;
Rosemary Harris as Elsie;
David Morrissey as Dad;
Thelma Barlow as Ena;
Bill Milner as Edward;
Michael Caine as Clarence