SYNOPSIS

The Boys Are Back is a confessional tale of fatherhood. It follows a witty sportswriter, Joe Warr (Clive Owen) who, in the wake of his wife's death, finds himself in a sudden, stultifying state of single parenthood. Joe Warr throws himself into the only child-rearing philosophy he thinks has a shot at bringing joy back into their lives: "just says yes." Raising two boys - a curious six year-old and a rebel teen from a previous marriage -- 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. The three multi-generational boys of the Warr household, father and sons alike, must each find their own way, however tenuous, to grow up.

TECHNICAL DATA

Director: Scott Hicks
Production: Greg Grenman, Tim White

Screenplay: Alla Cubitt,( Simon Carr novel)
Cast: Clive Owen, Emma Both, Laura Fraser, George MacKay, Nicholas McAnulty
Editing: Scott Gray
Cinematography: Greig Fraser
Soundtrack: Hal Linde
Runtime: 104 min. Language: English Color: Color

DIRECTOR

BIOGRAPHY
Scott Hicks was born in 1953, in Uganda. He spent his childhood in Kenya and Great Britain before his family settled in Australia during his teens. Though Hicks planned to major in English and drama in college, he was captivated by film studies instead. After graduating with honors, Hicks spent several years working on film crews for various Australian productions, including Bruce Beresford's early heist movie Money Movers (1978), as well as creating his own short films. During the 1980s, Hicks made several low-budget Australian-fiction feature films, directing the teen road movie Freedom (1982), and writing and directing Call Me Mr. Brown (1986), as well as Sebastian and the Sparrow (1988). Hicks found more success, however, with his documentaries The Great Wall of Iron (1989) and Sharks of Steel (1994). Hicks finally reached the international movie audience when his long-gestating Shine debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996. Based on the eventful life of troubled concert pianist David Helfgott, and a labour of love for Hicks since he first saw Helfgott perform in 1986. A box-office hit, Shine sealed Hicks' reputation when it earned seven Oscar nominations, including directing. Though he resisted relocating to Hollywood, Hicks subsequently nabbed the plum assignment of directing the screen version of the best-selling novel Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), but the his new movie failed to win over critics and audiences. Hicks' less than felicitous relationship with Hollywood movie-making continued with his adaptation of a Stephen King story, Hearts in Atlantis (2001). Despite the presence of such A-list talent as star Anthony Hopkins and screenwriter William Goldman, Hearts in Atlantis' story of friendship between a lonely boy and a supernaturally gifted man received mixed notices and floundered at the box office. Six years later, Hicks resurfaced as a director in No Reservations. He followed that up with a more personal project, shooting a feature length documentary on the iconic composer Philip Glass, Glass: a Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts. His latest project, is The Boys are Back


FILMOGRAPHY
- The Boys are Back (2009)
- Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2007)
- No Reservations (2007)
- Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
- Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
- Shine (1996)
- Sebastian and the Sparrow (1989)
- Call Me Mr. Brown (1986)
- Freedom (1982)