Film review: The Boys Are Back (12A) (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Film review: The Boys Are Back (12A)

6:08pm Friday 22nd January 2010 in

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Running time: 104 mins. Starring: Clive Owen, Nicholas McAnulty, George MacKay, Laura Fraser, Emma Booth, Julia Blake, Natasha Little. Director: Scott Hicks.

A widower struggles to raise his young son in the aftermath of terminal illness in Scott Hicks’s moving drama, based on the emotionally devastating memoir of Simon Carr.

By turns touching and funny, The Boys Are Back is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit and a reminder that there is no instruction manual for good parenting.

Sometimes, you just have to muddle through and do as little damage as possible.