Sometimes, the best stories we hear growing up are the ones our relatives swear are true. "Secondhand Lions" is all about those tall tales our families tell, and how they can shape our lives. This 2003 film teams up Robert Duvall and Michael Caine as a couple of ornery Texas bachelors with a slightly older Haley Joel Osment, a few years out from "The Sixth Sense".
The story follows Walter (Osment), a shy kid whose flighty mother dumps him on his great-uncles Hub (Duvall) and Garth (Caine) for the summer because she's heard the two old men are sitting on a hidden fortune. Walter expects a long, dull stretch in the middle of nowhere. What he gets instead is Garth's account of Hub's younger years, and a friendship that changes all of their lives for good. And you also get a chance to point and say, "Look! Haley Joel got older!" like you might have if you saw this movie when it originally debuted.
