Sunday, September 7, 2008

Is There Anybody There? [RY Sunday, 3pm]

Is There Anybody There? John Crowley, United Kingdom

World Premiere

From the director of Boy A, comes a wise and charming story of an unlikely friendship between a scruffy former magician and a little boy with a morbid streak Ten year-old Edward (Bill Milner) has become increasingly obsessed with death and the afterlife since his parents turned their house into a retirement home. Edward’s is a lonely and peculiar existence – until he meets Clarence (Michael Caine) who introduces him to wonders in the here-and-now.