In the new sports drama The Way Back, Ben Affleck stars as a high school basketball coach who's wrestling with some demons. A star player in high school, Jack Cunningham turned down a scholarship to ...

With The Way Back, director Gavin O'Connor (Warrior, Miracle) has prepared a very familiar and very comforting, audience-pleasing stew. Sports movies have long been, throughout the broad history of ...

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Ben Affleck eases persuasively into The Way Back, a sports/redemption drama that’s playing way below his level — and into the role of Jack Cunningham, a former high school hoops star who once passed ...

Less a tour-de-force sports drama than one man’s journey towards redemption and sobriety, “The Way Back” marks director Gavin O’Connor’s first sports film since his 2011 mixed martial arts drama, ...

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It's difficult to talk about The Way Back without mentioning Ben Affleck's personal life. The star has been a fixture of tabloid headlines since the very beginning of his career, his square jaw and ...

Nov 14, 2019 - Watch the trailer for The Way Back starring Ben Affleck as Jack Cunningham, a former basketball ball phenom who forfeits his bright future. After accepting a position to coach the ...

Ben Affleck stars in this film that has the outward trappings of an inspirational sports drama, but is primarily a recovery movie. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Ben Affleck stars as a hard-drinking high school basketball coach chasing redemption in Gavin O'Connor's drama 'The Way Back.' By Todd McCarthy It’s meant as a firm compliment to say that The Way Back ...