dvd of the week Nat Faxon and Jim Rash won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Alexander Payner for The Descendants, and the The Way, Way Back is the first feature written and directed only by them. A coming-of-age comedy set in a summer beach town and its local water park, it is…
Last year, when Nat Faxon and Jim Rash accepted the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Alexander Payner for The Descendants, a bunch of people watching the show said, “Wait, those guys?” Faxon is a dopey-faced blond who has appeared in countless TV sitcoms and B-movies, and bald and awkward; Rash plays the hapless…
