Secondhand Lions 2003 DVDR NTSC

General : Secondhand Lions (2003)

Complete name : Secondhand Lions.iso

Format : MPEG-PS

File size : 3.48 GiB

Duration : 1h 49mn

Overall bit rate : 4 562 Kbps

Burn Tested : Yes

Genre : Comedy - Drama - Family

IMDB Rating : 7.5

Image Created with : LCISO Creator



Video

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Format : MPEG Video

Format version : Version 2

Format profile : Main@Main

Format settings, Matrix : Default

Duration : 49ms

Bit rate mode : Variable

Bit rate : 3 797 Kbps

Nominal bit rate : 9 802 Kbps

Width : 720 pixels

Height : 480 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 16/9

Frame rate : 29.970 fps

Standard : NTSC Full Screen

Colorimetry : 4:2:0

Scan type : Interlaced

Scan order : Top Field First

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.367



Audio

ID : 128 (0x80)

Format : AC-3

Format/Info : Audio Coding 3

Duration : 1h 49mn

Bit rate mode : Constant

Bit rate : 448 Kbps

Channel(s) : 6 channels

Channel positions : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE

Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz



Format : DVD-Video



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Cast

Michael Caine ... Garth

Robert Duvall ... Hub

Haley Joel Osment.. Walter

Kyra Sedgwick ... Mae

Nicky Katt ... Stan

Josh Lucas ... Adult Walter

Michael O'Neill ... Ralph

Deirdre O'Connell.. Helen

Eric Balfour ... Sheik's Grandson

Christian Kane ... Young Hub

Kevin Haberer ... Young Garth

Emmanuelle Vaugier. Jasmine

Adam Ozturk ... The Sheik

Jennifer Stone ... Martha



Plot:



13 year old Walter has had a hard life, with his no good floozy of a mother getting together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops him off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. They disappeared for quite a while in their youth, and are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter's mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the two cantankerous men. Though reluctant to put up with him at first, Hub and Garth grow to accept Walter, and even tell him fantastic stories of what they were up to while they went missing. When his mother returns, Walter must take charge of his own life, and decide what he's going to do with it. Written by rmlohner





Viewer Comments:



Gentle yet more substantial than a first viewing offers, 25 September 2004

7/10

Author: pwoods1 from Adelaide, South Australia



This is a very gentle film - not as gripping as Big Fish but in a similar genre - which is worth a second look and therefore a reappraisal.



Ostensibly a coming-of-age film, I saw it more as an abandoned child's (surely Walter is such) search for belonging: a search for affirmation that life is more than being cast-off as worthless by the person she/he loves, and therefore worth living. At one point Walter indicates that he is sick of being lied to by his mother, Mae, apparently always dumping him for the "new boyfriend" in her life. And thus we come to the crux of the movie.



"Secondhand Lions" refers as much to the curmudgeonly uncles, Garth and Hub, (eccentric characters wonderfully understated/underplayed by Michael Caine and Robert Duvall) as it does to the "used" lion that the brothers purchase. Walter first becomes fascinated by Garth's fantastical tales of Africa, but when Garth "misremembers" the rescue of Jasmine, the only love of his brother's life, Walter starts to question the truth behind their past. Indeed, having witnessed Hub's (apparent) sleepwalking, Walter doubts the sanity of his uncles.



Earlier, however, on arrival at their decaying home, the child has discovered a well-traveled cabin trunk; and, upon opening it, discovers sand covering a portrait of whom he later learns is Jasmine - the love of Hub's life. Later, in a show of bravado when he names the ageing "secondhand" lion "Jasmine", the threads of Hub's story come together and, intriguingly enough, when Walter appears to be leaving, it is Hub whom he fiercely hugs. In a sense, Hub's loss of Jasmine mirrors his own emptiness.



OK. It's gentle, but I offer that the constant (I would argue not intrusive) symbolism and allegories work. Walter exposes a pointless existence in as much as the brothers are waiting to die - and gives them a reason to live. And, of course, they live beyond his and their wildest dreams. But those dreams are shown, finally, as truth. The denouement, twee as it might seem, fits the script. The treasure/money which Walter's mother Mae told him to seek becomes the love/relationship which he needed.



(By the way, it's OK to cry. Big boys do that too. I did.)

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327137/