While loading 50-pound bags of Lion Chow, Hub passes out and is taken to the hospital. When Walter asks to hear more from Hub, his uncle reveals that Jasmine and their baby died in childbirth.

According to the postmark on the envelope of the letter Walter (Haley Joel Osment) gets from Mae (Kyra Sedgwick), the movie takes place during the summer of 1962. The lion in the movie was a mixture of reality and puppetry.

Despite some profanity, Secondhand Lions’ gifted cast, smart writing and moral compass make this unassuming little film a good one for teens, parents and grandparents to experience together. Confidence. Strength. Vision.

Walter’s mother lets him stay with his uncles. Years later when Walter is a grown man, Hub and Garth die flying the plane into their barn. They leave a will saying “the kid gets it all, plant us in the damn garden with the stupid lion”.

He tells Walter how he ran off with Jasmine. How her jilted suitor, the sheik, sent assassins after the pair until Hub tricked him out of a hundred pounds of gold and defeated him in a duel. Jasmine died in childbirth a few years later , and Hub never loved another woman.

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Secondhand Lions is the story of Walter, a young boy who has faced a lifetime of neglect and abandonment from his mother. The title, Secondhand Lions obviously refers to the used lion purchased by Garth and Hub, but it more subtly refers to Garth and Hub themselves.

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