**_English Abstract

Ben is back is, if you will, a small film about the unexpected reunion with his family of young Ben (Lucas Hedges), a recovering addict, but who fulfills what he sets out to cover and narrate, surprises with his development and offers a great performance from Julia Roberts as his mother._**

English Review

On Christmas Eve, Ben, a young addict interned for his recovery (Lucas Hedges), unexpectedly returns to his house to spend with his mother Holly (Julia Roberts), his sister and the rest of his family. This brief reunion will have unexpected consequences.

At first, Peter Hedges's film forcefully raises the discomforts and home contradictions of this unexpected reunion, although it suggests a development already seen in other fictions within the molds of melodrama. However, after an event that should not be disclosed, other aspects about Ben are revealed and with them, other edges of the problem that the film addresses, which slides into other genres.

Lucas Hedges once again gives us another of his concentrated characters, which he enriches as the narrative incorporates his point of view. Julia Roberts wonderfully plays a kind of mater dolorosa, transmitting that uncomfortable mixture of feelings where love is combined with vigilance and also courage.

Ben is back is, if you will, a small film but that fulfills what it intends to cover and narrate and that surprises with its development.