– Alcoholics can gain control of their lives when they receive professional help and find a purpose for their life. A teenage girl talks about having found her parents' bodies face down in the mud, beaten with barbed wire and strangled. A man falls on a sheet of melting ice, another man slips and falls into the water and another man helps him up; he is unharmed. Read Common Sense Media's The Way Back review, age rating, and parents guide. A man grabs a woman's buttocks in front of another woman after making a sly sexual remark, and another woman listening makes a remark to the other woman that she would "be on her back" if the man had made a similar sexual remark to her. Throughout the movie we see men and women drinking beer and wine. A man instructs another man to take off his shirt so he can shave him and the man does; we see his bare chest and back. – About 56 F-words and its derivatives, 1 sexual reference, 24 scatological terms, 31 anatomical terms, 4 mild obscenities, name-calling (rich guy, blind, ham), exclamations (shut-up), 5 religious profanities, 2 religious exclamations (e.g. infidelity) may be too much for tweens, but teens will appreciate the challenges the main … A teenage girl is seen standing on the porch in a shirt and bikini bottoms. Plot Summary Several basketball game scenes feature screaming fans, some shaking their fists, along with coaches shouting and cursing at the referees. While we read all emails & try to reply we do not always manage to do so; be assured that we will not share your e-mail address. A group of men and a teenage girl walk through a desert, their faces are sunburned and scabbed, the teenage girl collapses, her feet are swollen and she dies soon thereafter. Taglines Please try again later. A teen boy pushes another teen boy and a third teen boy falls on the court, followed by a short fistfight broken up by referees. A woman appears to be drinking and is drunk throughout the movie, including stumbling drunkenly. A man drinks from a bottle that he identifies as vodka. The majority of the film could be considered intense. In a children’s cancer clinic, a bald young boy crosses the screen in a wheelchair and a bald boy lies asleep in a bed; obscured by a screen is another young boy in bed and his mother, standing nearby, begins screaming and crying loudly. Plot Keywords. A man slams a beer can angrily. At a practice session, a player makes pistol gestures with both hands. A man tells several men the story of a pirate, saying that he associated with "murderers and cut throats.". Parents need to know that The Way Back is a sports drama starring Ben Affleck as Jack Cunningham, a one-time high school basketball phenom who struggles with alcoholism as an adult. – A man and a woman kiss as the man drives drunk in his car until he hits the rear end of a parked boat and the woman screams, jumps out of the car and the man speeds away; the man then walks back to the woman’s house, enters and we see him from the waist up as he reaches into his trouser waistband and we hear urination until another man enters the room with a club in his hand, grabs him, and pushes him out the door and down a long flight of steps (we see him with cuts and blood on his face) and the next scene shows the man in a hospital bed with a bandage on a cut on his forehead. zergnet.src = (document.location.protocol == "https:" ? The Way Back Parent Guide An inspiring sports story that takes an unusually deep look at the challenges of overcoming alcoholism.