The Boys Are Back

Chance meets grief. A widowed sportswriter fights his mother-in-law for custody of his two sons using parenting methods he invents on the fly. The story follows one year of three mismatched boys adjusting to a house with no rules but plenty of football and toast for dinner.

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Scott Hicks directed The Boys Are Back in 2009. See Scott Hicks's full filmography, where to start with Scott Hicks, or where to go after you've seen everything by Scott Hicks.

The Boys Are Back was released in 2009 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 104 minutes.