The Way Way Back
Movie • 2013 • Comedy
ReportOver the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
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No, but rape is mentioned during a conversation, but it is just a passing comment and is never mentioned again. The character who was raped is not named and is not shown in the movie.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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The only animals in this movie are seagulls flying in the background.
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Is someone stalked?
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It is very minor where a side character follows the protagonist (without their knowledge) out of curiosity
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Is someone gaslighted?
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SydneySpringer
The character cheating on his wife gaslights her into thinking she’s imagining things/that he’s faithful
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There's emotional abuse and neglect. The main character/protagonist is a 14 year old boy whose emotional needs are not being met by his family. He also repeatedly endures taunts, condescension, and passive aggressive insults from his mother's boyfriend. It's also revealed that the main character's father doesn't want him around.
A secondary adult female character, is self-absorbed, abuses alcohol, and is emotionally neglectful, hypercritical, and condescending towards her children; even going so far as to constantly criticize her youngest child's visual disability.
A secondary adult female character, is self-absorbed, abuses alcohol, and is emotionally neglectful, hypercritical, and condescending towards her children; even going so far as to constantly criticize her youngest child's visual disability.
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An adult female's older son offers her and her adult friends marijuana. You see him hold the bag and see him rolling a joint. No one is shown smoking it, but it's implied a short time later that they're all high while also intoxicated with alcohol.
Three teenage girls at the beach have a conversation about their parents and one of them says "I'm going to do drugs my kids".
Three teenage girls at the beach have a conversation about their parents and one of them says "I'm going to do drugs my kids".
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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YES. Many characters consume alcohol to the point of being intoxicated. A couple of them brag about passing out during past drinking episodes. An adult female character reveals she's "off the wagon" and is shown drinking alcoholic drinks throughout most of the movie.
*Not abuse, but an adult male character is completely indifferent towards his teenage daughter drinking beer. She shown taking beer bottles and looking for beer, but is never shown actually drinking it.
*Not abuse, but an adult male character is completely indifferent towards his teenage daughter drinking beer. She shown taking beer bottles and looking for beer, but is never shown actually drinking it.
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Family
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An adult male antagonist cheats on his girlfriend with a lady friend and former lover. The girlfriend is the mother of the male character.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Littletoesbig
But do know a significant portion of the film has water aspects
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Only mentions! No visual or audio
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Side character jokes when they first pull up to the house
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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Pregnancy
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Sex
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There's kissing and suggestive situations. Along with a grab of the behind
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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A couple of women in bikinis are deliberately and intensely ogled by several male characters at a waterpark.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Vehicular
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