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  1. Join hands and make contact with the living, son. Edward hates living in the old people's home run by his parents. His only interest is a morbid obsession with ghosts, death and the afterlife ...

  2. In 1987 Edward (Bill Milner) is a ten-year-old boy who lives at an old people's home run by his parents (David Morrissey and Anne-Marie Duff). Surrounded by death and dying, he becomes obsessed with finding evidence for the afterlife, often using a tape recorder to capture his "encounters". Edward is helped in his search by Clarence (Michael ...

  3. The film grapples with the sad truths of getting older and losing loved ones, all the while maintaining a sardonic wit and sincere warmth. Coming of age in a family-run rest home, the reclusive, death-obsessed Edward (Bill Milner, Son of Rambow) wiles away his days tormenting his parents elderly residents and secretly tape-recording them in search of answers about the afterlife.

  4. Apr 28, 2009 · It looks like a retirement pad for thesps: there’s Leslie Phillips in the corner, making crude jokes; there’s Sylvia Syms, playing a grump; there’s Thelma Barlow, still looking like Mavis ...

  5. Synopsis. Set in 1980s seaside England, Is Anybody There? tells the story of ten year-old Edward whose parents have turned their house into a retirement home. While his mother struggles to keep the family business afloat and his father copes with the onset of a mid-life crisis, Edward becomes increasingly obsessed with the ghosts and afterlives ...

  6. Sure, there’ll be banter-filled tension, but given that the cantankerous golden oldie was once a magician—the Amazing Clarence—while the lad is obsessed with the supernatural, and both are ...

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  8. Apr 29, 2009 · There's a real sense of growth and development in their personalities courtesy of Peter Harness's script. It superbly captures this odd couple and is peppered full of neatly observed dialogue that ...