‘Ben Is Back’ Film Review: Julia Roberts Goes for Broke in Another Troubled Teen Movie
Less than 24 hours after one harrowing teen addiction movie “Beautiful Boy” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday night, another debuted on Saturday, Peter Hedges’ “Ben Is Back” with Lucas Hedges and Julia Roberts.
The troubled-teen genre is getting a workout this weekend in Toronto, for sure, with Hedges also starring in Joel Edgerton’s “Boy Erased.” (Though that teen is troubled because the adults around him won’t accept that he’s gay and push him into a conversion therapy program, which is hardly the same thing as addiction.)
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