A teenage boy on vacation swaps his mother's suffocating circle of friends for new buddies in this smart and funny comedy
In this attractive, well-observed summer holiday comedy set at a Massachusetts resort, 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James) comes to terms with his parents' divorce but not with his mother's duplicitously overbearing new boyfriend (Steve Carell). He's bored, unresponsive and resentful in the company both of his peers and his mother's circle of well-off, hard-drinking, casually adulterous summer visitors. Accidentally he discovers another community inland: the sweet-natured countercultural bunch running the splendidly kitschy Water Wizz Park, which offers an alluring combination of artificial waves, an aquatic helter-skelter, ice-cream and proximity to cute chicks.
Like the heroine of Dirty Dancing, Duncan is drawn to this alluring venue and is liberated from the depressing, institutionalised bad faith of his mother's world by Water Wizz's laid-back, wise-cracking manager, Owen (the excellent Sam Rockwell). Owen's likable opposite number in Duncan's other world is a hard-drinking, expansively witty, generously disposed divorcee played by Allison Janney. Not a subtle film, but honest, intelligent and very funny.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/01/the-way-way-back-review
Alexander Korda Alexander Mackendrick Alexander Payne Alexandra Quinn
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