Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
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Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges starrer ‘Ben Is Back‘ is released today and it wouldn’t be wrong to say that it can be watched just for the two. The mother-son duo is the central character and did expectedly well on the acting node.

Julia is the Acadamy Award winner Julia Roberts and Lucas is the Acadamy Award, nominee. The film is directed by Lucas’s father Peter Hedges and produced by Peter Hedges, Nina Jacobson, Teddy Schwarzman, and Bradford Simpson. It had been premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2018, and was released in the home country on December 7, 2018.

There is no one way to be a perfect parent and one can never be perfect. No matter how strict you are, at times you have to handle a situation leniently, you have to be flexible and rigid at the same time. The film opens all such aspects of parenthood.

Ben (Hedges), a drug addict who lives in a rehabilitation center, suddenly comes back home to his family just a day before Christmas. His condition has been worsened a few times before. The family is terrified to see him, due to some history but how could a mom send his son away, when he is desperately trying to change? However, Holly (Roberts) makes a deal with her son, that he can stay at home just for Christmas if he promises to stay in front of her eyes all the time. Meanwhile, she hides all the drugs and jewelry which can awake his desire.

Lucas played a character of a disappointing son who knows it very well. His performance as a drug addict is applaudable.

Peter Hedges has written about the bond and love of a mother, who never gives up on her child, no matter what he does, very beautifully.

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