Yes it was an excellent movie, especially for a fairly recent one.
Second Hand Lions probably could have been a great classic...it needed three or four things done to it (the clips relating back to North Africa just didn't work)...but the characters were so rich in nature. I thought it was perfect for TV and could have easily done a five-year stretch.
But the scene which is a classic out of the movie...was when the salesman drove up to the porch the first time and got shots fired at him.