Is Anybody There? (2009)

95 min. Director: John Crowley. Cast: Rosemary Harris, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff, Michael Caine, Bill Milner.

"An old person and a young person, please." this bid for a bus ticket sums up

lonely and angry ten-year-old Edward (Bill Milner) curiosity called a "gaylord"

thirty-nine-year-old father Steve (David Morrissey), whose eyes wander to eighteen-year-old employee Tanya

Caine plays Clarence Parkinson, a.k.a. The Amazing Clarence

angry and disheveled, he at first appears a scary old man

lost his wife Annie, lives in a camper van

fascinated with ghosts and what happens post mortem

secret audio tape recordings in the effort to capture a spirit passing

Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers

onset of dementia

Rosemary Harris

Peter Vaughn

theremin prominently featured on the soundtrack

"It's hard to get this far and realize there's absolutely bloody nothing!"

discovery of his father's indiscretion