The second part of his career began with a lead role in the British rowing film "True Blue" (released in the US as "Miracle at Oxford"), in which he played a hotshot Navy rower who was recruited along with three other Americans to help Oxford win its annual boat race with Cambridge. He followed that with relatively small roles in the dramas "Minotaur" and "Harvest". He took his first stab at comedy in "The Definite Maybe", in which he played a recent college graduate who gets fired from his job and schemes with an old friend to purchase a house in the Hamptons.