Inspired by a true story, the opening film of the 2009 Inverness Film Festival is a deeply moving, wryly confessional tale of fatherhood that highlights the fragility and wonder of family life.
It follows a witty, wisecracking, action-oriented sportswriter Joe Warr (Academy Award® nominee and Golden Globe® winner CLIVE OWEN) who, in the wake of his wife’s tragic death, finds himself in a sudden, stultifying state of single parenthood. With turbulent emotions swirling just below the surface, Joe adopts the only child-rearing approach he thinks might bring joy back into the lives of his two boys; "just say yes."
Raising two children - a curious six year-old (NICHOLAS MCANULTY) and a rebel teen (GEORGE MACKAY) from a previous marriage - in a household devoid of feminine influence, and with an unabashed lack of rules, life becomes exuberant, instinctual, reckless . . . and constantly teetering on the brink of disaster.
United by unspoken love, conflicted by fierce feelings and in search of a road forward, the three men of the Warr household must each find their own way of growing up.
Academy Award® nominee Scott Hicks (Shine) directs from a screenplay by Allan Cubitt based on the acclaimed 2001 memoir by Simon Carr.