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The Way Back

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A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction, attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater. From TMDB

23 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon) · newest Oct 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 9, 2026 · How this works

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  • Experimental/Dance/Music Festival @dancemusicexper.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2025

    Interview with Filmmaker Angy Antonios Akly (The Way Back Home) wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2025/11/24/i... The Way Back Home is a two-minute poetic film that unfolds underwater, where a woman’s expressive movements accompany a powerful monologue on identity, womanhood, and self-ownership.

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  • Experimental/Dance/Music Festival @dancemusicexper.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2025

    HIGHLIGHTS: Nov 2025 EXPERIMENTAL Festival experimentalfilmfestival.com/2025/11/26/h... Best Micro-Short: Dead Umbrella Bostonella Best Direction: Come Home Now Best Story: Turmoil – Ch One Best Visual Design: 7eventh 7irkle Best Experimental Film: 12th House Best Poetry Film: The Way Back Home

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  • Under 5 Minute Film Festival @under5minutefest.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    Short Film Trailer: THE WAY BACK HOME. Directed by Angy Akly www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vS3... Directed by Angy Akly A poetic film that unfolds underwater, where a woman’s expressive movements accompany a powerful monologue on identity, womanhood, and self-ownership #wildsound #moviereview

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  • WILDsound Podcast @wildsoundpodcast.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2025

    Podcast: EP. 1614: Filmmaker Angy Antonios Akly (The Way Back Home) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MWs... The Way Back Home is a two-minute poetic film that unfolds underwater, where a woman’s expressive movements accompany a powerful monologue on identity, womanhood, and self-ownership. #wildsound

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Jan 1, 2025

    btw, if you haven't seen Peter Weir's last film, before his retirement, it's called The Way Back it's got Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, and some of the most beautifully photogaphed natural vistas you've ever seen

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  • lucks eterna @lucks-eterna.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2024

    WAIT HOLD ON, THE FALLOUT 1x04 END CREDIT SCENE AFTER COOPER WATCHES HIMSELF IN HIS OLD MOVIE IS A DRIVE IN THEATER?!?!!!! ARE YOU TELLING ME THE #GHOULCY DRIVE IN SCENE WAS FORESHADOWED ALL THE WAY BACK THEN?!?!! 😳😱🤩🎥🍿

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  • 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2026

    TRIVIA: As of 2022, 'The Way Back' is the final film directed by Peter Weir. Though he never publicly announced his retirement, he considers himself retired from the film industry. (IMDB) 🖤

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  • Elena Lazic @elazic.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2025

    Everyone who told me THE WAY BACK was minor Weir was wrong. Another gripping film about how being alive means suffering, and the need to have things worth suffering for. It doesn't look or sound as good as his other films, but it's still a very satisfying film for adults.

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  • juju the god of biscuits @jujujuniper.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2025

    Quote with a movie poster from the year you turned eighteen. 😁 HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS CAME OUT ALL THE WAY BACK IN 2002

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  • Peach Fleur [on sabbatical] @peachfleurr.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2024

    Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters. Day 1 — The Way Back (2010) #filmsky #filmchallenge #films 📽🎥🎬

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  • Melissa Jo @melissajd.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    #SeptemberMovieChallenge #FilmSky 🎥 Laboring in a movie. They didn't specify what type of labor, so I chose prison labor. 😉 The Way Back (2010)

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  • Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    Poster by Vera Novakova for the film, “The Way Back” (1959), directed by Václav Krška.

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  • Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿 @darlingebony.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    You went into the Way Back Machine for that one. I loved that movie as a kid. But you are right.

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  • Melissa Jo @melissajd.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    #OctoberMovieChallenge #FilmSky 🎥 Someone walking or running a great distance in a movie. The Way Back (2010)

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  • omacolt.bsky.social @omacolt.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    #Bales2026MovieChallenge Day 13 Movie set in Mongolia The Way Back (2010)

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  • Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    Afternoon movie, one of the few remaining Weird films I haven’t seen: The Way Back (2010)

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2026

    #OctoberMovieChallenge Day 5 - someone walking or running a great distance in a movie The Way Back (2010) #filmsky #moviesky ...a group of prisoners escapes from a Siberian gulag and walks 4,000 miles to freedom in India...

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  • Akos Peterbencze @akospeterbencze.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2026

    Kicking off a new series called The Weir-Does — in which I explore some of the best work of legendary Australian filmmaker Peter Weir — with the director’s final movie before retirement: The Way Back, starring Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, and Jim Sturgess.

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  • Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2026

    Yeah, I just recently watched “The Way Back” along with @blankcheck.bsky.social and it’s a bummer that will probably end up having been Weir’s last movie! But considering that he specialized in pretty much *exactly* the kind of movie Hollywood almost never makes anymore, I can’t say I blame him

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  • Curt Johnson - Indie Genius @indiegeniusMastodon · Oct 25, 2025

    Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #BenAffleck #AlMadrigal #TheWayBack Ben Affleck's Critically Celebrated Sports Drama Is Shooting to a New Streamer http://dlvr.it/TNtd19

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  • 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖆𝖎𝖓! @roymathurMastodon · Jan 2, 2024

    Happy #Blakes7 Day. The first episode, #TheWayBack, was broadcast on BBC1 on Monday 2nd January 1978 at 18:00. I was glued to the set, watched every single episode, and bought the magazine for years. Long live the glorious rebellion and down with the fascist Federation!

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  • tmdb28039023 @tmdb28039023TMDB reviews · Aug 28, 2022

    The Way Back (2020) is a return to form for Ben Affleck following an aimless second half of the previous decade – specifically his ill-advised stint in the DC Universe. In this drama directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by Brad Ingelsby (co-writer of the excellent Out of the Furnace), Affleck plays Jack Cunningham, a former high school star basketball player turned alcoholic construction worker who reluctantly accepts a coaching job at his alma mater. How do we know he's an alcoholic? Well,…

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  • Manuel São Bento @msbreviewsTMDB reviews · Mar 31, 2020

    If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog @ https://www.msbreviews.com I’m not the greatest fan of inspirational sports dramas, but I also never disliked one. They all follow this storytelling formula that everyone recognizes, but it’s always successful. The protagonist is a miserable human being due to some tragic past. He gets another shot at life, usually an underdog situation, and he ultimately overcomes whatever challenge is thrown at him, including his addictions…

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