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  1. Aug 1, 2022 · To answer simply, no, ‘The Way Back’ is not based on a true story. However, it is closer to reality than you could possibly imagine. Gavin O’Connor is a former UPenn football star, who also played the sport through his high-school. The director’s best known works, ‘Warrior’ and ‘Miracle’, are interestingly, both gut-wrenching ...

  2. Jan 20, 2011 · 2h 13m. By Manohla Dargis. Jan. 20, 2011. “The Way Back,” a heroically minded survival story from Peter Weir, tells the possibly true tale of a group of prisoners who fled a Soviet gulag in ...

    • Peter Weir
    • The Way Back Isn't Based on A True Story
    • How The Way Back Tackles Ben Affleck's Personal Issues
    • The Way Back Is An Emotionally True Story

    At a glance, The Way Back bears a surprisingly strong resemblance to what many moviegoers would expect to see from a movie based on true events. The movie is marketed on being an uplifting sports drama of a down-on-his-luck every man coach who becomes a role model for a group of adolescent athletes, while giving them the proper push to whip their f...

    Where The Way Back most closely parallels real-life is in Jack's alcoholism mirroring Ben Affleck's own public struggles in recent years. The Way Back press tour has seen Affleck himself be very open in this regard, describing the impact alcoholism has made on both his career and his personal life. Affleck has also quite noticeably bounced back in ...

    While The Way Back may not have a true factual basis, it is a true story in a more esoteric sense of the term. For one thing, the movie is a considerably darker story than most sports dramas, and even in comparison to Gavin O'Connor's past work in films like Miracle and Warrior. In many ways, The Way Backis far less concerned with being a basketbal...

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  4. Jan 21, 2011 · The Way Back: Directed by Peter Weir. With Dragos Bucur, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Alexandru Potocean. Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.

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    • Peter Weir
    • 2011-01-21
  5. Mar 5, 2020 · The Way Back, a movie about an alcoholic named Jack (Ben Affleck) who is recruited to lead a flailing high school basketball team, might sound like a familiar story. So familiar, in fact, that it ...

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  6. Nov 16, 2019 · A post shared by Ben Affleck (@benaffleck) It’s likely not a coincidence that The Way Back was filmed shortly after Affleck’s Oct. 2018 stint in re-hab. More recently, Affleck has remained ...

  7. Jan 21, 2011 · The Way Back is based on The Long Walk, a bestselling 1950s memoir by Polish veteran Slavomir Rawicz that was thought to be the author's own story until, shortly after the fall of Polish communism ...

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