Is Anybody There?

Boy A director John Crowley followed up that award-winning film festival favorite with this eerie yet eloquent drama concerning a young boy fascinated by death due to the fact that he lives in the hospice home for the elderly that's owned by his parents. Perhaps due to the morose surroundings in ...more

Is Anybody There? stars Michael Caine as grumpy old magician The Amazing Clarence, who reluctantly takes up residence in a seaside English rest home circa 1987. He describes the place as one with "a lot of jabbering simpletons rushing about wetting themselves," which is at least halfway accurate. But instead of a typical institutional facility, the establishment is an actual home, one belonging to a struggling wife (Anne-Marie Duff) and frustrated husband (David Morrissey) who are trying to make ...more