“The Way Back” (** out of four) was a tepid inspirational drama about a severe alcoholic (Ben Affleck) who is hired as a basketball coach at his former high-school but his continued alcohol abuse causes his life to spiral out of control affecting his job, his family, and his overall control at life. Affleck tries in a role that obviously echoes his own life and own alcohol issues but we know so little about him and his character that the story fails to connect much emotionally. Works best in its final third but then reaches an unsatisfying conclusion. Similar story was told much more richly in 1986’s “Hoosiers.”