Secondhand Lions

During the long shots around the uncle's house, there are modern day water towers on the horizon.

When Walter drapes the blanket on Hub before waking him from his sleepwalking, the blanket changes position several times between shots while Hub talks to Walter.

While Hub is fighting the teens in the diner there is a coke machine in the background with the modern logo on it (should be all red with white Coca Cola lettering).

At the beginning of the movie, Hub and Garth are flying in their biplane.

They fly past a police cruiser, in which the cop is sleeping.

A view of the rearview mirror shows that the cop is already awake, but a second later we see him suddenly wake up.

At Saratoga Springs, Canada geese are shown landing.

Instead of the distinctive "honk" of a goose, we hear ducks quacking.

When Stan and Walter are talking about the money on the front porch, he puts his hand on his shoulder twice.

In the beginning when Walter comes across Jasmine's photo, he opens the trunk and we see mostly smooth sand.

However, in the next shot where he is reaching down into the trunk, we see that a hand has already disturbed the sand.

The sections of the biplane have obviously been carefully inserted into precut holes made into the barn.

When the family comes to visit Hub in the hospital scene, the youngest boy is seen entering the doorway first in one shot, then in the following shot he is seen pushing past his sister to enter again.

At the end of the film, the grandson of the sheik pronounces the word sheik as "sheek".

An Arab would almost certainly use the correct pronunciation of "shekh," as the correct spelling of the word is "Sheikh" due to the fact that "kh" is one letter in the Arabic alphabet and is pronounced as such.

When the boy runs across the bridge he is on the wrong side.

The close-ups and the distance shot do not match.

During Hub's fight with the teens, no one lays a hand, or knife on him.

At the end it can be clearly seen that Hub's shirt is whole.

When they get back to the farm, he has several small knife holes in the upper left.

After the boys break slats out of the lion's crate, the size of the opening changes size in subsequent shots.

In the final scene before Walter hears the helicopter his hair is perfectly still and then begins blow as if the helicopter is right over him even though the helicopter has not yet appeared over the tree line.

Hub refers to lions as living in the jungle.

Even though this is technically incorrect as they live in the Savanna, not the jungle, it is an understandable error because lions are commonly referred to as the "King of the Jungle".

In the bar fight the shotgun is cycled open and closed to chamber a shell and get attention.

In following camera shot action is open (wooden forearm to rear of barrel).

For remaining scenes the action is again closed (wooden forearm back to front of barrel).

When the lion is in the crate and they are going to shoot it you can see the chain holding the lion in the crate running down his chest partly exposed, they tried covering it up with fur, you can see it in several shots.

In the beginning we see a bunch of signs such as radioactive signs on the way up the driveway but in later shots the lane isn't that long and the signs aren't there.

Walter and his uncles are shown eating piles of sweetcorn harvested from their corn patch, but a later scene (Jasmine's burial) shows the corn still bearing tassels.

Tassels emerge during pollination, and would have dried up long before the corn was ready to eat.

It is so rare these days to see a film with such a great story, filled with imagination, plenty of excitement, adventure and plain good fun but without profanity, gore and gratuitous sexual scenes. The story was unique, and the acting was excellent.

This is actually a endearing film, sure it might not be all that realistic but endearing never the less. This is probably the movie where Haley Joel Osment was at his peak.

I hadn't seen this movie since I was about 10 and all I remembered was loving every second of it. Rewatched it as an adult and it has got to be one of the best movies ever written.

I seen the movie when it came out in 2003... I thought it was amazing then.

The first night is absolutely awful, the uncles do not really want him there, and when he begs his mother to take him with her, she refuses. He is told by the two old men that whenever he gets hungry, he needs to cook on his own, and if he ever needs anything, to tend for himself or better yet, get used to not having it.

Secondhand Lions is directed by Tim McCanlies and stars Haley Joel Osment as Walter, a boy living in the 1950's with a mom that is a very irresponsible parent. When his mother decides that she's going to college, which Walter is suspicious of being dishonest, she drops him off at his two great uncles' house in Texas.

This wonderful little film really kind of blindsides you as it goes along, evoking powerful emotion and hopefully reflection on what really matters in life. Like many of the truly important movies out there that should be seen, it was critically panned, horribly/barely marketed, and a commercial failure.

The story is set in the early 1960s and begins with Walter (Haley Joel Osment) being dropped off at his very strange great-uncles' home in the middle of no where Texas. The mother is a very irresponsible sort and apparently her taking off without the boy is nothing new.

Absolutely loved this film. I won't say much as don't want to spoil for anyone but it's brilliant.