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Synopsis: This is a gentle, innocent film about the reflections of an aging man, who returns to his home town after the death of his best friend. Memories of life at age 11 floods back as it was a magical time that changed his life. Three 11 year old children (Bobby, Carol, and Sully) share their lives. Carol and Bobby have a special affection for one another including sharing a kiss "by which all others will be measured". Bobby lives with his mother, a bitter, vain woman who looks for pleasures for herself without sharing much with her son. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder, who befriends the boy but generates distrust from the mother. As time passes, the man and boy share confidences and special powers are revealed. The man warns the boy to be on the lookout for the "lowmen", who were seeking him. The two share a summer's adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens. A confrontation with a school bully also changes everyone.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Scott Hicks
Production: Warner Bros.
  2 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
49%
PG-13
Year:
2001
101 min
$23,604,382
Website
259 Views


- There she is.

- Bobby was right.

- A prodigy, huh?

- Why don't you win it back?

- I could, but I can't play for money.

A boast-y boy.

Says he can win,

but afraid to back it up.

I could have my money back.

Come on. Beat him.

- I can't. Your mother won't be happy.

- Beat him, come on.

My mom's never happy.

It's all I got.

This is the move that stunned

the sheik of Araby. Behold.

This one here, in the middle.

- All right!

- That's it!

A lucky guess.

Double your bet.

That way we all go home happy.

Fine.

This one is five years of my life.

This one here.

Nobody ever beat that shuffle.

Well, mister,

is it or isn't it?

- Yes, that's it! Okay.

- All right!

- It was a fluke.

- You bet it was a fluke.

Now beat it, kid.

Okay, gang, let's go. That's enough.

Come on, Bobby.

Step right up!

We had a winner!

It's easy as can be.

Easy peas-y Japanese-y!

Yes, yes.

Don't be afraid.

When we swung out, I was afraid

we would fall to our doom.

We're as safe as can be.

What do you think you're doing?

Well, I thought you wanted me to.

I just wasn't ready, that's all.

Okay.

- Bobby, do it again.

- I better not. You'll tell.

No, it'll be our secret.

Hurry, before we go down.

Bobby, I'm dying here.

Thank you.

That was the nicest thing.

It'll be the kiss by which

all others will be judged.

What?

Sounded better when Ted said it.

You knew, didn't you, where

the queen of hearts was?

I could tell what was

going on in his head.

Every thought he had, I knew,

and he couldn't fool me.

Can you tell what's in Sully's head?

Sully's head's always empty.

Oh, yeah? Maybe I'm thinking

of getting a new glove.

You are?

Well, what about that one?

- Want it?

- Are you kidding? I love it!

- Then, Bobby, it's yours.

- It is?

I'll leave it to you in my will.

- Sully, you just love doing that!

- I got you again.

You know, when you're young...

...you have moments

of such happiness...

...you think you're living

in someplace magical...

...like Atlantis must have been.

- Carol, I owe you $ 75. It's your turn.

- Okay.

- Here, give me $25 back.

- Twenty-five.

- Here. $22.

- Okay. Wait, no!

- No! Hold on.

- Oh, yeah. No.

Then we grow up...

...and our hearts break in two.

- Yes! I own it!

- Wait, no!

- No, I do.

- He does.

- Come on.

- Hang on.

What is it?

I wonder what it means.

It means somebody lost their pet,

goofball. Come on.

Yeah, but maybe it's a secret code.

What are you talking about?

- Fairy. I'll take that!

- I'm not a fairy!

- Don't talk to them!

- How are your tits?

- Go away!

- Grow up, Harry Doolin!

The Lone Ranger.

- Hi-ho, Silver!

- Bobby, how was school?

- Good.

- You'll never guess.

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William Goldman

William Goldman (born August 12, 1931) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to writing for film. He has won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and again for All the President's Men (1976), about journalists who broke the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon. Both films starred Robert Redford. more…

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