Continuity mistake: When Hub and Walter are talking by the lake, Hub's, and later Walter's, blanket repositions itself each time the camera cuts back. (01:08:45)
Secondhand Lions (2003)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Tim McCanlies
Starring: Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Josh Lucas, Kyra Sedgwick, Haley Joel Osment, Nicky Katt
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". After Walter reads the will, the grandson of the sheik Hub did not kill earlier comes to see the site of the legends his grandfather always talked about.
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Trivia: The doctor who tells the family Hub checked himself out of the hospital is Eugene Osment, Haley Joel Osment's father.
Answer: An accident. They were inexperienced pilots trying dangerous barnstorming stunts. A fitting end for two adventurers afraid of nothing.
Brian Katcher