The Way Way Back 2013 123movies

Watch: The Way Way Back 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Duncan (Liam James) is not a popular kid and it doesn’t look like the summer is going to offer anything better for him. His mother’s boyfriend has invited them to his beach house where Duncan is expected to improve his personality and physical appearance, and meet girls. But his would-be step-sister doesn’t want anything to do with him and his shy demeanor makes it difficult for him to meet anybody new. When Duncan wanders into the Water Wizz, the local water park, he meets adult employees who are just having fun. Owen (Sam Rockwell) lets Duncan work with him and their new-found bond will help each other mature and find their place in life. Which for Duncan means standing up to his would-be step-father, having a conversation with the girl next door and being more comfortable with who he is..
Plot: Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.
Smart Tags: #summer #water_park #shy_kid #unlikely_friendship #water_slide #teenage_boy #vacation #awkward_boy #reference_to_reo_speedwagon #mother_son_relationship #coming_of_age #singing_in_a_car #teenage_girl #party #repetition_in_title #girl #bikini #car #buick #convertible #chevrolet

Find Alternative – The Way Way Back 2013, Streaming Links:

123movies | FMmovies | Putlocker | GoMovies | SolarMovie | Soap2day

Ratings:

	7.4/10 Votes: 151,116
	84% | RottenTomatoes
	68/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1512 Popularity: 14.719 | TMDB

Reviews:

“Duncan” (Liam James) is a typical fourteen year old boy. He keeps himself to himself, and isn’t greatly looking forward to his family holiday with mother and her boyfriend and his older teenage daughter. Determined to get away from this domestic bliss, he heads to the “Wizz” water park where he strikes up a friendship with one of the animal keepers “Owen” (Sam Rockwell). The latter sees something, perhaps of himself, in this younger lad and allows him to help him. As the summer progresses, both help the other to find an inner strength to deal with their demons – and, gradually, a newly empowered “Duncan” emerges ready to assert himself a little more. Whilst this isn’t a great film, there is something about James’s strong and personable performance that merits watching. His teenage angst is cleverly, subtly even, presented to us and his relationship with Rockwell, not an obvious friend for the boy, evolves by degree – and not always positively, either. There is way too much dialogue, and I found the family sub-plot with his over-bearing step-father “Trent” (Steve Carrell) and his really irritating daughter “Steph” (Zoe Levin) whom would cheerfully have left in the shark pen, got in the way of the intensity of this otherwise quite engaging exercise in bonding and maturing confidence. Worth a watch.

_**A boy coming-of-age near Cape Cod and more**_

A 14 year-old boy (Liam James) struggles to fit-in with the family & friends of his mother’s new beau (Steve Carell) as they partake of a vacation at his beach house in the Cape Cod area. The teen finds a quasi-mentor (Sam Rockwell) at a water park while developing a friendship with the cute neighbor girl (AnnaSophia Robb). Toni Collette plays the mother, Allison Janney a friend and Amanda Peet a flirty woman.

“The Way Way Back” (2013) is a coming-of-age flick that meshes elements of films like “The Squid and the Whale” (2005), “The Summer of ’42” (1971), “Meatballs” (1979), “Swimming” (2000) and “Lawn Dogs” (1997), but this is arguably the best of them.

Part of the genius of the movie is that the potential stepfather (Carell) isn’t made out to be totally evil nor is the seeming mentor (Rockwell) perfect. They’re both flawed men with presumably good intentions toward the boy, but only one proves that he’s a worthy father-figure. Moreover, the all-around writing/acting smacks of real life.

AnnaSophia is super cute on the female front while Zoe Levin is alluring as the pouty, bratty stepsister. Meanwhile Andria Blackman has a standout cameo as the girl in a yellow bikini.

The film runs 1 hour, 43 minutes, and was shot in the Cape Code region of Massachusetts: Wareham & nearby Onset; Marshfield & nearby Duxbury.

GRADE: A/A-

Earnest, Relateable and Endearing – We’ve All Been Here Before
A sweet, funny, earnest coming-of-age dramedy that plays out like a period piece, even though it’s set in the present day. Tempering a plucky spirit and subtle, pointed sense of humor with an introverted lead character and a familiar, bittersweet atmosphere, it’s a spiritual successor to the John Hughes golden age of the mid-80s. Liam James is beautifully awkward as the quiet, brooding young teenager at the story’s epicenter, aided by a thoroughly deep, entertaining supporting cast. No matter how minor, every character enjoys a purpose and a motivation, enriching the scenery and tickling the viewer’s curiosity with a tangle of warm, colorful subplots. Steve Carell will get plenty of attention in his unexpected turn as the boy’s self-centered douchebag stand-in father, but Sam Rockwell’s deeper-than-he-seems burnout splash park manager is the real show stealer. A strong, heartfelt and meaningful return visit to adolescence for anyone who’s ever felt out-of-place in their own skin.

A front-runner for 2013
This film is the first directorial effort by Jim Rash and Nat Faxon. Both have done quite a bit of work in other film-related areas in their careers, especially in acting. However, the two also won the Academy Award for writing Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants” (starring George Clooney) not too long ago and “The Way Way Back” shows us how prolific and talented they are as they directed, wrote and produced the film and also appear in smaller roles here and successfully deliver comic relief. I quite loved “The Descendants”, yet I managed not to get my hopes too far up with this one. The result was me being very positively surprised as I ended up liking it pretty much the same like “The Descendants”.

The lead actor here is Liam James. He does a fine job with a character that is, despite his age and his shyness, possibly the most normal character in the entire movie, certainly more normal than many of the other characters herein that are twice or even thrice his age. As the cast includes actors that have been working for decades, it’s even more impressive how James manages to be on par with them and how he’s never in danger of being overshadowed by the likes of Rockwell, Rudolph, Carell, Collette or Janney. Certainly his work in the film “2012” or as a regular on several TV shows (such as Psych) has helped him a lot in gaining the necessary experience to carry this movie and give us one of the finest 2013 portrayals in a coming-of-age movie. The film itself runs for slightly over 100 minutes and, even if it was very good, still felt like it had a lot more to offer than it finally did. That includes among other things the story of Susanna and her mother which seemed truly interesting, even if we only got very small portions from the grand picture behind it and it could certainly justify a spin-off.

Beyond that, the film is a big Sam Rockwell showcase. He basically steals the show from everybody the moment he enters the screen in a hilarious scene involving the computer game classic Pac-Man. From that moment on, we are watching him turn more and more turn into a father figure to the main character with every minute. Rockwell breathes life into a pretty unique character who’s quite a force of nature, but still has quite a few flaws, which make him even more interesting to watch. He’s a crucial figure in this year’s maybe most successful film about a character coming of age. It has lots of drama, but still equally much heart and humor. As much as I’m concerned, I sometimes need a while, maybe even up to half an hour, to really get into a movie, but this one had me on the edge of my seat since minute one when the characters of James, Collette and Carell are in the car and talk about grading people. It was quite a sad situation already, but also one that perfectly introduced the trio’s characteristics to the audience very early on. And this grading process was referenced nicely near the end with the “friend of the 3”-scene. Excellent way in closing the circle. The final scene is back in the car again, so it’s a bit of a framework for everything that happened in between, but the situation has clearly changed position-wise and character-wise at that point due to everything that happened in-between.

All in all, I very much recommend this movie. It’s a pretty entertaining 100 minute-dramedy. The comedy is occasionally subtle, but often also very much in your face as a huge part of the film takes place at a water park which obviously means lots of fun with squirt guns, water slides and splashing everywhere. One of my favorite funny scenes was when the heavy black kid went down the slide to dissolve the children stuck in there. This one was completely hilarious. It’s not a perfect film, for example I didn’t like the scene that much where the protagonist meets this group of dancers with the crowds around them and was told to get them away and that Rockwell’s character of course foresaw the unlikely development that the kid would sort of join them, despite his very deep-rooted shyness still at that point, and the whole changing positions in the water slide subplot wasn’t half as effective as it aimed to be for me, but that’s just minor criticisms, which, by no means, should keep you from seeing this movie.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 4600000
Revenue 23198652
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Writer Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Actors Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney
Country United States
Awards 5 wins & 30 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), FotoKem Laboratory, Burbank (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format SxS Pro
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), ProRes 4:4:4 (1080p/24) (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical), D-Cinema