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“Like many writ­ers and their work, Tim McCan­lies admits a great deal of the char­ac­ters who appear in Sec­ond­hand Lions emerged from his own past. “As a kid I spent a lot of sum­mers with my grand­fa­ther, who was a crusty char­ac­ter much like the uncles in the movie,” he reflects. “But while my grand­fa­ther was tough, there was a real ten­der side that was buried under so many lay­ers. He loomed large to me as a kid. And grow­ing up with a good, strong male fig­ure in their lives is what could make the dif­fer­ence in how a child grows up. I tried to fig­ure out what it is that men teach boys and deal with that a lit­tle bit in the film.”

Sec­ond­hand Lions fol­lows the comedic adven­tures of an intro­verted boy named Wal­ter (Haley Joel Osment), whose mother, Mae (Kyra Sedg­wick), dumps him off, in the midst of a young life marked by bro­ken promises, to spend the sum­mer with his cranky, eccen­tric great uncles.“

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