IS ANYBODY THERE?
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As a modest coming-of-age black comedy, director John Crowley's "Is Anybody There?" fills its chosen niche with an appropriately contained performance from Michael Caine.
Caine's Clarence is a senile retired magician who takes up residence in an English seaside nursing home run by a married couple approaching middle age.
The couple's only child Edward (well played by Mill Milner) is a 10-year-old boy processing the ongoing parade of death around him with a fervent interest in ghosts.
Edward plants his tape recorder in the rooms of ill patients with the hope of capturing clues to the mysteries of death.
Although sworn enemies at first, Clarence becomes a mentor to Edward after the kid saves him from an attempt at suicide.
Equal parts sweet and sour, "Is Anybody There?" is a thoughtful little chamber piece with just the right amount of laugh-out-loud humor.
Rated PG-13. 92 mins.
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