Pretty much your standard coming-of-age movie; isolated teenager with a troubled family life finds comfort and friendship with an outside parental figure. It's well done all around with good performances and really flawed parental characters that make you buy into the story more than if it was just the pretense of bad parenting. The ending too is very satisfying, I was afraid it would end in a cheesy everything-is-right-in- the-world-now sort of way, but the ending suited the plot and the story nicely. The 1 downside to the whole thing however was the character of Owen, he is just so exaggerated and unrealistically over the top that, to some extent, he pulls the seriousness and plausibility out of the story. In-spite of that, it's still a good movie, and better than most of the others in the same genre. In short, you'll like this if you like coming- of-age dramas.
Review of The Way Way Back
