Review of Secondhand Lions (2003) by Fawn O — 01 Feb 2016

Secondhand Lions is a pliable, sweet-tempered, and crisp family drama surely to spark audaciousness and an appetite for mischief. It is a situational comedy following an edifying tale of a shy preteen boy named Walter (played by the lovable Haley Joel Osment) who is left abandoned by his impetuous mother and forced to brave an provocative summer in Texas with his bizarre and capricious uncles, Hub and Garth, who aren't used to being in the presence of children, especially one with a demeanor so vastly different from their own. When Walter gets wind of some local gossip regarding his uncles, he begins to ask them questions prompting them to eventually relay riveting and eccentric tales of their dramatic youths, which rejuvenates their buoyant spirits and childlike vigor.

[C] -- 56%.