Far back

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Movie
German title Far back
Original title The way, way back
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 8
Rod
Director Nat Faxon ,
Jim Rash
script Nat Faxon,
Jim Rash
production Tom Rice ,
Kevin J. Walsh
music Rob Simonsen
camera John Bailey
cut Tatiana S. Riegel
occupation
synchronization

Far Far Back (Original title: The Way, Way Back ) is an American film by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash from 2013 . The coming-of-age film is about a shy boy who makes friends at a water park during his summer vacation that help him gain confidence. The film revolves around the themes of friendship, family, identity and recognition. It stars Liam James , Steve Carell , Toni Collette , Allison Janney , AnnaSophia Robb and Sam Rockwell . The independent film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival .

action

The introverted 14-year-old Duncan spends his summer with his mother Pam, her boyfriend Trent and his daughter Steph in a coastal town on the Cape Cod peninsula where Trent owns a beach house. On the way there, Trent makes disparaging comments to Duncan, who is sitting in a kind of emergency seat "far back" in Trent's station wagon . At the end of the journey, they are greeted by their neighbors, the drunk Betty and her children, Susanna and Peter. Later that evening, Duncan and Susanna have a clumsy conversation from their neighboring porches.

The next morning, Duncan finds a pink girls bike in the garage of the beach house and uses it to explore the area. At a pizzeria, he meets the staff of the local water park Water Wizz and has a short chat with the park's manager, Owen, while he is playing Pac-Man . The carefree Owen takes Duncan under his wing and shows him the park. He gets to know other employees of the park, a ragged group consisting of Caitlin, Lewis and Roddy. On the tour, several children ask Owen about a legendary overtaking maneuver in the tube slide, but they don't get a correct answer. At the end of the day, Owen hires Duncan to do odd jobs at the Water Wizz .

Duncan is very dismissive towards Trent, who demands familiar manners from him, but does not find the right tone. He is neglected by his mother, who has fun with Trent and the couple who are friends with him, Joan and Kip, while also recommending alcohol and smoking marijuana . At the Independence Day festival , Susanna invites Duncan to go hunting ghost crabs with her and Peter. She tells of her absent father and helps Duncan open up. When they return, Duncan watches Trent and Joan kiss on the side of the beach house.

Once when Trent comes home late one evening, he tells Pam that he has been on Kip's boat all day. At a beach party, however, Kip notices that the engine has been broken for a week. When Pam then wants to run away, Duncan confronts her in front of friends and neighbors that Trent and Joan are sleeping together. She should do something about it, he himself would rather live with his father. Trent counters that Duncan has to spend the summer with his mother because his father doesn't want him. Susanna tries to cheer Duncan up on the beach. He wants to kiss her, but she evades him, which only distresses him more. Accompanied by Peter, Duncan sneaks to Water Wizz , where Owen is giving Lewis a farewell party.

Duncan spends the night with his friends at the Water Wizz and refuses to leave the next morning. Owen asks him why he doesn't want to leave the park. Duncan opens up to Owen and tells him about his relationship with Trent and why the water park is the only place he can be happy. Owen empathizes with Duncan's problems, as he too grew up with an emotionally violent father, which has led to his disdain for rules.

When Duncan returns to the beach house, his mother tells him that they are going back with Trent. Susanna kisses Duncan goodbye and says that she was just too surprised when he tried to kiss her earlier. On their way out of town, Trent hits a gas station, Duncan jumps out of the car and runs to the water park, followed by Pam, Trent and Steph. In the park, he tells Owen and the other staff that he has to go back and asks Owen to follow him. The two go to the tube slide and Duncan manages to be the first person to overtake another person in the tube. After finally introducing Owen to his mother, he says goodbye to the park staff. Then Duncan, Pam, Trent and Steph find themselves back in the car on the return journey. During the drive, Pam climbs into the back seat of the car with Duncan and they smile at each other while Trent's protest can be heard in the background.

Cast and dubbing

The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Marius Clarén by the synchronous company Arena synchronous in Berlin .

Role name Actress Voice actor
Duncan Liam James Finlay bold
Trent Steve Carell Uwe Büschken
Pam Toni Collette Christin Marquitan
Betty Allison Janney Karin Buchholz
Susanna AnnaSophia Robb Marie Christin Morgenstern
Owen Sam Rockwell Dietmar miracle
Caitlin Maya Rudolph Maja Maneiro
Kip Rob Corddry Olaf Reichmann
Joan Amanda Peet Bianca Krahl
Peter River Alexander Nicolas Rathod
Steph Zoe Levin Luisa Wietzorek
Roddy Nat Faxon Norman Matt
Lewis Jim Rash Christian Weygand
Kyle Robert Capron Paul-Lino Krenz

background

Jim Rash Nat Faxon
The directors and script gates Jim Rash and Nat Faxon

The idea for the film arose from memories of Nat Faxon and Jim Rash of their youth on the east coast of the USA . The pair's screenplay debut received the green light in 2005 from production company Fox Searchlight Pictures . Two years later, Shawn Levy read the script and was hired as a director. However, since he only had a short window of time until the production of Nachts im Museum 2 and the cast could not be found quickly enough, the project was discontinued. Fox was replaced by Mandate Pictures , where the film was in production for two more years. During this time a line-up was found, with which Faxon and Rash were not satisfied. With the script they also approached the production company "Ad Hominem", which the two commissioned with the adaptation of The Descendants due to the similar mood of the film . With the sensation caused by the script of The Descendants (including winning the Oscar in the Best Adapted Script category ), they dared to produce the film independently in early 2012 and to direct it themselves.

The casting ran from April to June 2012 before filming in July 2012 in Green Harbor , south Boston , within 25 days. The filming location was initially planned to be North Carolina , but for Steve Carell this was relocated to the south of Boston, where Carell lives with his family. During the shooting, a water park was filmed while it was still in operation, as the budget did not allow it to be closed.

In the United States, the film premiered on January 21, 2013 at the Sundance Film Festival . A day later, Fox Searchlight Pictures bought the US rights to the film for $ 9.75 million.

Between April and June 2013 the film was shown at a dozen film festivals in the United States, in the course of which it won the Audience Award in Nashville and Newport Beach . The film closed at the Los Angeles Film Festival. On July 5, 2013, the film was extremely successful in 19 theaters in the USA, on the weekend the film took more than half a million US dollars and by the nationwide release in 886 theaters on July 26, 2013, 5.4 million US dollars Dollar one. The film stayed in the cinema for 20 weeks. With a film budget of less than $ 5 million, total revenues are $ 26.9 million, of which over 21.5 million come from the United States. In German-speaking countries the film premiered on September 28, 2013 at the Zurich Film Festival . The film was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival on October 2, 2013. In Germany, Ganz was far less successful. The film was released for one week in 54 German cinemas on December 5, 2013 and took in US $ 150,000.

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the US on October 22, 2013 . The publication brought in again over $ 5 million there. In Germany, the publication followed on April 4, 2014.

reception

criticism

The film received mostly positive reviews. At Metacritic , the film received a Metascore of 68/100 based on 41 reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes , 85 percent of 169 reviews were positive. In summary, one writes there that the film uses "despite its familiar themes [...] its talented cast, a finely tuned script and lots of charm to tell a funny and convincing coming-of-age story". Entertainment Weekly's Chris Nashawaty found the coming-of-age film charming and, at times, extremely funny. Variety critic Peter Debruge says the cast was relied on more than the plot. Both critics note that a lot of things seem familiar from similar films, such as Adventureland . The acting of the supporting actors was mentioned positively in several reviews, with Allison Janney and Sam Rockwell receiving special attention .

The German film and media rating awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable” and describes the film as a “light-footed story about growing up and being an adult - charming, wonderfully funny and moving”. The dpa also sees a sensitive film in the far back that offers great potential for identification. The change of Duncan is staged in the film "pleasantly calm", while the story is a "nice mixture of drama and comedy" that is never silly over the top, but rather seems extremely realistic. Susan Vahabzadeh praises the feeling for emotional scenes and the “quiet humor” of the film in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . In addition to the teenage story, the film, which is partly set in an unrenovated water park, tells "about what happens when you renounce the mania for modernization and profit maximization." that's the way it should be. ”Daniel Sander compares the film in the mirror with The Descendants , and the summery melancholy and cautious wit are also very far behind ; However, the young Duncan had to get along with less charisma than George Clooney , because he did "nothing in the whole film, except feel sorry for himself and look disgruntled to sad into the distance." The rest of the ensemble, however, is convincing. In conclusion, Sander says that in the far back is "a quiet, grown-up film about growing up, sometimes banal, often wise and always calmly funny."

Awards and nominations

The film has been nominated for several awards by critical associations, including the San Diego Film Critics Society and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association . At the Newport Beach Film Festival he won the audience award for best feature film. The Critics' Choice Movie Awards of the Broadcast Film Critics Association , the film into three categories was (Best Comedy, Best / r Young Actor / Actress for Liam James and Best Actor in a Comedy for Sam Rockwell nominated). The film was nominated for the Art Cinema Award at the Hamburg Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Approval certificate for the very far back . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 995 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for far behind . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b Far back. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on November 22, 2013 .
  4. ^ A b Jim Rash & Nat Faxon: Writer-directors detail how 'The Way Way Back' was a long, long road . In: LosAngelesTimes.com . November 21, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ Pamela McClintock & Peter Gilstrap: Levy to direct 'Way Back' . In: Variety.com . Variety . April 30, 2007. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ Patrick Ronan: Local favorite Steve Carell to film movie in Marshfield next month . In: PatriotLedger.com . June 7, 2012. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  7. ^ Todd Longwell: Sets Provide on-the-Job Training for Actors-Turned-Directors . In: variety.com . Variety. August 14, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
  8. ↑ a b c Specialty Box Office: 'The Way, Way Back,' Others Counter Fourth Of July Tentpoles . In: deadline.com . Deadline. July 3, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
  9. ^ Sundance Film Festival: The Way, Way Back . In: Sundance.org . Archived from the original on December 30, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 24, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / filmguide.sundance.org
  10. ↑ Daniel Miller, Tatiana Siegel: Sundance 2013: Fox Searchlight Buys 'The Way, Way Back' for $ 9.75 million . In: hollywoodreporter.com . The Hollywood Reporter . January 22, 2013. Archived from the original on February 17, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 4, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hollywoodreporter.com
  11. ^ Closing Night: The Way, Way Back . In: LAFilmfest.com . Archived from the original on December 6, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 24, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lafilmfest.com
  12. ^ Peter Knegt: Specialty Box Office: 'Way, Way Back' Scores Strong Debut; 'Midnight' tops 'Sunrise' and 'Sunset' . In: indiewire.com . IndieWire. July 8, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  13. ↑ Ray Subers: Forecast: 'Wolverine' To Go Berserk On Box Office This Weekend . In: BoxOfficeMojo.com . Box Office Mojo . July 25, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
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  15. ^ The Way, Way Back - International Box Office Result . In: BoxOfficeMojo.com . Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 18, 2014.
  16. ^ The Way Way Back Movie Reviews . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved June 4, 2015.
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  18. ↑ Peter Debruge: Review: 'The Way, Way Back' . In: Variety.com . Variety. January 21, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
  19. ↑ Catherine Shoard: The Way, Way Back - review . In: TheGuardian.com . The Guardian . September 1, 2013. Accessed December 3, 2013.
  20. ↑ David Gritten: The Way, Way Back, review . In: Telegraph.uk . The Daily Telegraph . August 29, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
  21. ↑ Far back . In: FBW.com . Retrieved December 3, 2013.
  22. ↑ "Far back": A sensitive coming-of-age flick . In: focus.de . Focus . November 30, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
  23. ↑ A bit shabby, but beautiful . In: sueddeutsche.de . Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 6, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
  24. ↑ Coming-of-Age-Comedy “Ganz weit zurück”: Difficult, easy life . In: spiegel.de . Spiegel Online . December 5, 2013. Retrieved December 6, 2013.
  25. ↑ Far back - Awards . In: IMDb.com . Internet Movie Database . Retrieved December 25, 2013.
  26. ↑ Pete Hammond: 'American Hustle', '12 Years A Slave 'Lead BFCA's Critics Choice Movie Awards Nominations . In: Deadline.com . December 16, 2013. Retrieved December 25, 2013.
  27. ↑ Far back - Awards . In: IMDb.com . Internet Movie Database. Retrieved December 4, 2013.