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 ...

The Way, Way Back, written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, is the kind of independent film the Sundance Film Festival has become synonymous with: a widely-appealing, coming-of-age tale that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The comedy, which stars Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell and Toni Collette, sparked the most heated bidding of the festival so far. By Daniel Miller, Tatiana Siegel U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Nat ...

"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 ...

Sam Rockwell has revealed that his character in The Way, Way Back was inspired by Bill Murray's performance in Meatballs. The Way, Way Back stars Liam James as a young boy who is helped to cope with ...

“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 ...

An especially strong script gives actors plenty to chew on in this comedy-drama, in which writer-directors Faxon and Rash (The Descendants) take an observant look at the awkward connections we make ...