Movie Make-out

You like to smile, right? I thought so. That being the case, watch this trailer:

In John Crowley’s Is Anybody There? (called Is There Anybody There? in its original UK release), Michael Caine stars as “a retired magician who reluctantly enters a family-run old age home. Set in a seaside English town circa 1987, Is Anybody There? charts the unlikely friendship that develops between Caine’s proud, acerbic old performer and the death-obsessed young son [Son of Rambow's wonderful Bill Milner] of the home’s overwhelmed owners. Written by Peter Harness, who draws from his own experience growing up in a retirement home, Is Anybody There? brings a rich humor as well as a rigorous honesty to its portrait of different lives colliding under one roof.… Is Anybody There? tells a charming story about growing up and growing old, and the unpredictable adventures that happen along the way.”

The supporting cast includes Anne-Marie Duff (The Magdalene Sisters), David Morrissey (The Deal), Rosemary Harris (Aunt May from the Spider-Man films) and Leslie Phillips (Venus).

It’s all too easy these days for a trailer to quote some critic or another saying that a new film has one of the finest performances of an actor whose career has spanned more than a few decades — but I wouldn’t be too surprised if Stephen Farber is right about this one.

Is Anybody There? opens in NY and LA on April 17, 2009. No word yet on a wider release.