YMMV / Secondhand Lions

• Ending Fatigue: First, scrapped version of the ending. It drags for almost 10 minutes of Padding to drive exactly the same point home - that the uncles' stories were true. Even the Sheik personally shows up in it, just for the sake of being there.
• Moral Event Horizon: Mae crosses this when she decides to have Stan stay with her, even though he almost killed her own son. She possibly crossed it even earlier, when she allowed Stan to take Walter out to the barn. She clearly knew what was going to happen, but let it happen anyway. Mitigated a little by the following scene where she relents and allows Walter to stay with his great uncles. While it by no means redeems her, it at least shows that she is aware of how terrible a mother she is and that letting Walter go is best for everyone.
  • It's possible, however, that when Stan "asked" Walter for a "man-to-man talk", she went to get help, as she clearly lacked both willpower and physical power to confront Stan herself. After all, she did get into the house somehow, where she emerged from a bit later, along with Hub and Garth.
  • Several bits were also changed from the scene as originally shot which made it clear they're deliberately scamming Walter together, as the only way we could possibly buy her Heel Realization.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Two of the children were played by Mitchel Musso and Jennifer Stone of Disney Channel fame. The former would eventually star alongside Haley Joel Osment's younger sister Emily in Hannah Montana.
  • Viewers familiar with the world of voice acting may recognize one of the thugs in the bar fight scene as Travis Willingham, who would shoot to fame as the voice of Roy Mustang a little over year later.
  • Fans of the SyFy Channel show Haven will be pleasantly surprised to see Duke make an appearance at the end of the film as the Sheik's grandson.
• Signature Scene: When a crowd of gathered characters hear the lion at the McCann house has escaped, the next shot of them features the brothers McCann, their younger male relative, and the four delinquents exiting the house, guns in tow, in perfect sequence.
• Tear Jerker: Jasmine's death while trying to protect Walter.
  • Hub’s reveal of what happened to the original Jasmine- he’s so distraught by the memory that he can’t even bring himself to look at Walter when he says it.
  Hub: …She died. She died in childbirth. Her and the baby.