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Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John Crowley
Production: Big Beach Films
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
PG-13
Year:
2008
94 min
$1,988,165
Website
69 Views


Wuh-wuh-wuh...

Come here!

Come here while I kick you!

You think they sent me here to be abused?

Get stuffed!

This is my house!

Big hand's at six,

little hand's at eight, Eddie!

Get out! Clear off!

Come here, you lot!

Come here, come on!

Never mind making a bid for freedom!

'It's all clear. False alarm. '

They are real people, not toys! They were

little boys and girls as well once!

I don't want to live here! I want things

to be like they were. I want my room back!

Mark my words! By the time he's 13, he'll

be sniffing glue out of a plastic bag!

Thanks, Lilian.

What did you want to say, Edward?

What do you want to say?

Oh, where are you off to with a grump on?

Go on, get yourself off to school.

Tell Mr Kelly

you had to go to the dentist.

Idiots!

Cow!

Wankerer!

Mummy!

Dad!

Easy way out. Coward's way out.

Just, you know, a cry for help.

That's all. Classic.

- A what?

- Never mind, big ears.

Don't say, "That's all," Steve. How

could we let him get to that? Poor fella.

We're going to have

to cheer this place up a bit.

I'm very sorry for smacking you.

Are you all right?

Come here.

You're very fortunate, you know.

I never met my grandparents.

And my mummy and daddy -

too far away for us to see them much.

You've got all these old people around

with all these amazing stories.

It's a privilege.

At least I think it is.

Do you...?

Don't be scared of death, love.

It's all right to be sad.

There's no point being scared.

I'm not scared.

I just want to know what happens.

- Nurse!

- I thought you might want your stuff.

Draw that curtain round.

And give me my left shoe.

- Did you want one?

- No...

Ta.

Sorry for setting the fire bell off.

Sorry I put a lot of talcum

on your floor and that.

Sorry for not saying sorry

when you ran me over.

And that time I chucked dirt on your head.

That's an awful lot of things

to be sorry for at such a young age.

Sorry.

Are you a magician?

- I gave it up.

- Why don't you start again?

Do me a favour.

When you...

Did...

Did you see any kind

of bright white light?

Or a tunnel with Jesus at the end?

As a matter of fact, I did.

This cross-eyed little herbert turned up

and yanked me back out.

That's what

you should be saying sorry for.

? That certain night

? The night we met

? There was magic abroad

? In the air

? There were angels dining at the Ritz

? And a nightingale sang

in Berkeley Square...?

Can someone inform me

what the hell you think you're playing at?

I'm stuck up here on my own

with nothing to keep my trousers up with!

Welcome home.

You know, if I want to top myself...

...I can jump out the window!

'There must be some way we can... '

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Peter Harness

Peter Harness (born 1976) is an English playwright, screenwriter and actor. He has contributed to programmes such as McMafia, City of Vice and Case Histories. more…

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