Deborah Ross

Up to old tricks

Is Anybody There?<br /> 12A, Nationwide

issue 02 May 2009

Is Anybody There?
12A, Nationwide

Is Anybody There? stars Michael Caine as a grumpy old fella who, begrudgingly, goes to live in an old people’s home where his fellow residents are played by Rosemary Harris, Elizabeth Spriggs, Peter Vaughan, Thelma Barlow, Sylvia Syms and Leslie Phillips but not Peter O’Toole, who appears to be the one that got away.

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