Secondhand Lions
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Hub: WE'RE OLD, damnit! leave US alone.
Garth: The last thing we need is some little sissy boy hanging around all summer.

Walter: If I'm gonna live here, there's gonna be some conditions.
Hub: Conditions?
Walter: No more dangerous stuff. No more fighting teenagers. No airplanes. More vegetables, less meat.

Walter: What's wrong with him?
Garth: Well, a man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.
Garth: And him - in his day, he had more spirit than twenty men.

Garth: Hey! You, in the crate! Get your lion butt outta there.

Walter: What happened to her?
Garth: Looks like her heart gave out in all the excitement. She was plenty old, you know.
Walter: Look, I think she's smiling.
Garth: I guess she died happy.
Hub: She died with her boots on, that's the main thing.
Garth: Protecting her cub.
Walter: She was a real lion, wasn't she, there at the end? A real jungle lion. A real Africa lion.

Garth: The Sheik knew that he would sure die now, without even the right to beg for mercy... But Hub just said "Twice I have held your life in my hands. And twice I have given it back to you. The next time..."
Young Hub: Your life is mine.

Sheriff: Best I can figure, they were trying to fly through that barn, upside down.

Helen: You take him to the orphanage right this minute.
Hub: Whether we take him to the orphanage or tie him up and throw him in the lake, that's OUR business, not yours.

Walter: Is it okay if I go inside and watch television?
Garth: Ain't got one.
Walter: No television?

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)

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Question: Was the ending a suicide or just an accident?

Answer: An accident. They were inexperienced pilots trying dangerous barnstorming stunts. A fitting end for two adventurers afraid of nothing.

Brian Katcher

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