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Jun 25, 2007 · Charlie Bartlett. This whip-smart comedy was postponed from its original August slot for a Feb. 22 opening. For the film to score with audiences looking for a youth movie with savvy and sass, much ...
Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) is failing miserably at fitting in at a new public high school run by the world-weary Principal Gardner (Robert Downey, Jr.). As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likeability positions him as the resident 'psychiatrist' dishing out advice, and the occasional prescription, to his fellow students in ...
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Jun 25, 2007 · Charlie Bartlett. This whip-smart comedy was postponed from its original August slot for a Feb. 22 opening. For the film to score with audiences looking for a youth movie with savvy and sass, much ...
The movie has a thematic focus on drugs and alcohol: Mother drinks (wine) repeatedly and is sometimes visibly drunk. High school students smoke marijuana (and use slang like "roach"). Charlie is prescribed medication by his psychiatrist (Ritalin, Xanax, Zoloft, Prozac), then starts selling his pills to classmates.
"Charlie Bartlett" is a film out of categories. sure, it could be defined as comedy, teenager movie, portrait of an age, frame for a great and lovely and not comfortable character. it is a film about a teenager genius. who change schools, mix business with romance, has as the best friend his mother and solutions for every problem of a difficult ...
Not Charlie Bartlett. It was shot with a meager budget and it shows. As for its behavior; it moves in a very clunky manner – fumbling between attempts at comedy and teen angst drama – almost as if writer Gustin Nash wasn’t entirely sure what he wanted to get out of the film. If I were to venture a guess, I think he was aiming for a mix ...
Feb 22, 2008 · Charlie Bartlett is a sweet, smart, very privileged kid, who has been kicked out of every private academy his over-medicated mom has sent him to. Now, he's about to start at a public school, and ...
