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    Review: Julia Roberts is pulled every which way in the gutsy, clumsy 'Ben Is Back'

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Dec 06, 2018 4 minutes

    One of the first things you realize about Ben (Lucas Hedges) is that he has a lot of hiding places. There's the attic in his family's suburban New York home where he used to stash his drugs. After getting frisked for illegal substances by his mom, Holly (Julia Roberts), he slyly points out that she neglected to check his shoes. The house itself becomes Ben's hideaway after he flees rehab and drops by unannounced on Christmas Eve, setting in motion a frantic, harrowing 24-hour journey into the perils of addiction, the horrors of the American opioid crisis and the

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