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Rolling Stone: The Boys Are Back
By Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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September 17, 2009
He can brood like nobody's business (Closer, Children of Men) and kill with impunity (The International, Shoot 'Em Up), but Clive Owen cuts bone-deep as sportswriter Joe Warr, the widowed dad of two sons in The Boys Are Back, based on a 2000 memoir by Simon Carr. OK, it sounds like a tear-jerker, and sometimes it drifts dangerously close. But Owen, in a heartfelt, award-caliber performance, never goes soft. It's his core of toughness that makes the movie so funny, touching and vital.
Joe had split from his first wife and son in England to run off to Australia with the woman he loved...
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