The Boys Are Back

Year: 2009

Actors: Clive Owen, Laura Fraser, George MacKay, Natasha Little

Duration: 104 min

After the sudden death of his second wife from pancreatic cancer, Australia's top sportswriter, Joe Warr, becomes the unprepared single father of his six-year-old son, Artie. Devastated, Joe--who has always been on the go covering major sports events--must now cope with the immediate responsibility of fatherhood, while, at the same time, he desperately avoids to confront his towering emotional anguish. As a result, Joe's solution to this sensitive problem is a "yes-to-all" approach; however, when Harry, his estranged teenage son from his first marriage, comes to visit, inevitably, Joe will have to deal not only with his grief, but also with the fact that he needs to be a full-time dad, probably, for the first time in his life. Can Joe live up to his sons' expectations?—Nick Riganas

Genre: Action   Drama