BEN’S WAY BACK
A MOVIE about a washed-up alcoholic whose addiction has cost him his marriage and just about everything else that’s important to him. Surely that’s a project someone like Ben Affleck, who’s been in and out of rehab, should avoid like the plague.
The jury is still out about whether the actor’s harrowing performance in The Way Back is the bravest thing he’s ever done or the craziest.
Even director Gavin O’Connor admits he had serious reservations about casting Ben in the role of Jack Cunningham, a construction worker who tries to drink away his sorrows after a devastating personal loss.
It all just seemed way too close to the bone – especially
