The Friends of Melabev ran another highly successful film event:
SECONDHAND LIONS
starring Robert Duvall, Michael Caine and Haley Joel Osment
English with Hebrew sub-titles
It was a wonderful family film screened in an engaging sociable ambience
at the New Melabev Center: 152 Derech Beit Lechem - everybody's favorite place
Harvey Chesterman MC'd the evening - and made a powerful pitch for the upcoming Walkathon. People signed up immediately after hearing his presentation.
Secondhand Lions is a 2003 American family film written and directed by Tim McCanlies. It tells the story of an introverted young man (Haley Joel Osment) who is sent to live with his eccentric uncles (Robert Duvall and Michael Caine) on a farm in the U.S. state of Texas.
In the summer of 1962, 14-year old Walter Coleman (Haley Joel Osment) is taken by his fortune-hunting mother, Mae (Kyra Sedgwick), to live with his bachelor uncles, who are rumored to have a secret fortune. When they first arrive, Hub and Garth McCann (Robert Duvall, Michael Caine) are knee-deep in their pond, shooting at bass with shotguns. Walter's cousins, also strong believers in the fortune, arrive a day after his mother leaves to ingratiate themselves into the good graces of Hub and Garth. They scare Walter away, and he runs to telephone the court reporting school where his mother had claimed to have gone. He discovers that she is not actually enrolled at the school, but has lied — again. With no recourse but to return to his uncles' farm, Walter eventually becomes used to their quirky, socially atypical mannerisms and they become used to him and his shyness.
While encouraging them to eat vegetables and stop shooting at visiting salesmen, he becomes aware of his uncles' mysterious past. . .
These older men had a bit of life's experience under their belts to pass on to their young nephew. They really lived!
