If puberty isn’t awkward enough, try being a 14-year-old in the 1980s with a lousy script to act from — or so says the look on actor Liam James’ face. As a 1980s divorcee, sticking her toe back in the ...

A film director once shared with me this intriguing observation: movie critics, he opined, see too many movies. Watching The Way, Way Back, co-directed and co-written by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, his ...

"The Way, Way Back," the comedy-drama by writer-directors Jim Rash and Nat Faxon, begins on an almost shocking note when Trent (Steve Carell) casually hurts the already shaky ego of Duncan (Liam James ...

If there’s one positive result from distributor Fox Searchlight’s decision at the Sundance Film Festival to pay nearly $10 million for “The Way, Way Back,” it should be this: It will remind people ...

The Way Way Back is a comedy-drama movie that centers around an introverted kid who is taken by his mother on a summer vacation at her wealthy boyfriend’s beach house. Not very interested in mixing up ...

Trent (Steve Carell) confronts Owen (Sam Rockwell) over Duncan (Liam James) in 'The Way Way Back' Image via Fox Searchlight Pictures Looking for a new summer comedy to dive into? If you're not in the ...

If you're looking for pleasure, for the surprise and depth of feeling that a wonderful movie can convey, The Way, Way Back is the revelation of the day ...

Before he absolutely steals the show in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, there's no better time to hop back into the greater filmography of Sam Rockwell to see what this performer can do. And what ...

Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.

Composer Rob Simonsen also worked on "The Spectacular Now." By Alexa Girkout, Daniel Taroy The Way, Way Back Still - H 2013 The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively stream the first track from Columbia ...

“The Way, Way Back,” opening Friday, covers all the right ground for a coming-of-age comedy, occasionally with more wisdom than it leads you to expect. It follows a familiar, feel-good formula so ...

If you enjoyed Adventureland but felt it had just a touch too much land, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash's The Way, Way Back promises to pull some of those same coming-of-age heartstrings, only this time do so ...