As the rebellious and aloof Robbie, the son of Tom Cruise’s Ray in 2005’s “War of the Worlds,” Justin Chatwin managed to hold his own with the Hollywood big leagues: the aforementioned Cruise as well as director Steve Spielberg (that’s not to mention scene stealer Dakota Fanning, who played his sister). Estranged from his father, and then driven to a near-suicidal decision to join the fight against deadly alien forces, Chatwin conveyed a personal story amid the special effects and thunderous roar of one of that summer’s biggest films. He followed the high profile movie that year with the
