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"Just say yes."

Director Scott Hicks' first Australian film since 1996's Shine, The Boys Are Back is a mature, poignant meditation on two staggering familial tragedies: divorce and early death. While this film had every right to be maudlin and contrived, screenwriter Allan Cubitt and director Hicks tackle the material with a raw emotional realism; affirming that real stories of loss... read more

Properly awful and dull. Would have been made better if the wife had been played by Dannii Minogue rather than a lookalike. Wanted to leave after 30 minutes.

"The Boys are back" a great movie as the relationship of father and sons shown very beautifully. It is described importance of relationship....

Scott Hicks (“Shine”) directs the poignant and sometimes comic story of a widower (Clive Owen) struggling to raise his two sons alone. Adapted by Allan Cubitt from Simon Carr’s novel, “The Boys Are Back In Town”. Laura Fraser and Emma Booth also star.