american accent?

Same Michael Caines accent

Yes Caine Does a American accent. Maybe not the best accent. But have to respect Caine for trying.

He attempted a New England accent in Cider House Rules. Similar results - all over the place. Could they have recast the character as English born? Easily, but then you would have Caine speaking in his built-in East London accent. (Cockney) which wouldn't have played that well for an upper crust ''Princeton Professor''. OTOH, he could have had a go doing a posh English accent - couldn't have been worse than the American attempt. (Which was very distracting and took away from the film).

It was american but it still sounded like his regular voice.


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He tried to. Honestly I didn't think he did very well. He kept slipping back into his home accent. Thing is, he did a great job at a Texan accent for Secondhand Lions (so good that, since it was the first movie I saw him in, I assumed he was really Texan and didn't know he was actually British until years later), so I don't get why he didn't do so good this time.

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I never thought for a second that he was even attempting an American accent. Two of my closest friends are from foreign lands (south of the border and eastern Europe). One came as a teen, the other as an adult. They are now both American citizens and consider themselves to be full Americans.

I thought it odd that the woman at the deli assumed he was an American, because it was so obvious that he had to be from the UK. I took that to be a random America bashing scene (we get used to it), but other than that I just assumed that he had immigrated to the U.S. years earlier and become a citizen. It happens, folks.

I love Michael Caine. He's one of my all time favorites. I also love it when actors pull off an accent. I even love it when they make a really good, but imperfect effort (good enough to pass for most audiences around the world). But I hate it when no effort is made, but is necessary for the part (Shawn Connery playing a Russian sub commander; Tom Cruz playing a Nazi officer: I'm talking to you guys).

If Mr. Caine is truly unable to do an accent, he shouldn't play foreigners--unless there's an explanation for his English accent. That said, I still really enjoyed him in this sad, but beautiful film. Two thumbs up.

yep, but he shoulda stuck with his own, his accent is horrible

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Michael Caine's American accent is on par with Dick Van Dyke's English accent.