{"id":57816,"date":"2018-09-10T15:27:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/10\/ben-is-back-review-julia-roberts-cant-save-middling-addiction-drama\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:27:38","slug":"ben-is-back-review-julia-roberts-cant-save-middling-addiction-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=57816","title":{"rendered":"Ben is Back review \u2013 Julia Roberts can&#039;t save middling addiction drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong performances from the Oscar winner and Lucas Hedges enliven a patchy film about a mother dealing with the return of her addict sonIt\u2019s Christmas Eve and as the Burns family prepares for the big day, they\u2019re encountered with a surprise visitor. In most situations, the unexpected return of a son and brother at this particular time of year would be met with warmth but it\u2019s not that simple with Ben (Lucas Hedges). He\u2019s a recovering addict, who informs them that his sponsor agreed that a last minute trip back home for the holidays could be good for him, away from rehab, despite the problems that could potentially arise. Related: Beautiful Boy review \u2013 Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet shines in grim addiction drama Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/sep\/10\/ben-is-back-review-julia-roberts-lucas-hedges\" target=\"_blank\">Ben is Back review \u2013 Julia Roberts can&#039;t save middling addiction drama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong performances from the Oscar winner and Lucas Hedges enliven a patchy film about a mother dealing with the return of her addict sonIt\u2019s Christmas Eve and as the Burns family prepares for the big day, they\u2019re encountered with a surprise visitor. In most situations, the unexpected return of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}