Kangeroos

The Boys Are Back (2009)

This is an Australian film staring Clive Owen and is “based on a true story”. What “based on a true” story usually means is someone complaining about their life before rounding out on a life affirming message. That ends up being mostly the case here. Clive Owen left his first wife and son in England and moved to Australia with some bird he knocked up, so now he has two sons but his second wife dies at the start of the film.

The main thrust of the story is that because Owen's character spends most of his time away as a sports journalist he has to get to learn how to be a dad for his youngest and then his oldest son as well. Stuff happens along the way, there is a misunderstanding and then resolution. Par for the course, to use a sporting term.

Ultimately The Boys Are Back is not a bad film but it is not a good film either, it does not really do anything new and is probably a top end 3/5. If you have nothing better to do you could watch this but I would not go out of your way to.