The Boys Are Back
Australia/UK | 2009 | 104 mins
from Simon Carr’s memoir The Boys are Back in Town, adapted by
Allan Cubitt and directed by Scott Hicks
starring Clive Owen, Laura Fraser & George MacKay.jpg)
The Boys Are Back is a confessional tale of fatherhood. A sports journalist, in the wake of his wife’s death from cancer, finds himself suddenly in the state of single parenthood. Joe Warr (Owen) throws himself into the only child-rearing philosophy he thinks has a shot at bringing joy back into their lives: “Just say yes.” Raising two boys in a household devoid of feminine influence, and with a lack of rules, life becomes exuberant, instinctual, reckless... and on the constant verge of disaster.
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Adults £7 | Under 25s £5
FEATURING AN INTRODUCTION AND POST-FILM Q&A WITH ADAPTING SCREENWRITER ALLAN CUBITT Allan has written for stage, screen and television. He wrote, directed and has won awards for The Pool of Bethesda, Prime Suspect 1 & 2, and The Hanging Gale. Television adaptations include Anna Karenina and the Hound of the Baskervilles. He is also a songwriter and musician and composed music for his own screenplay, Painted Lady, starring Helen Mirren. He is currently adapting Eugene McCabe’s novel Death & Nightingales for the screen and has been commissioned to write an original stage play for the National Theatre.
See also: A Single Man, My Last Five Girlfriends
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