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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama
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Director:
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Jon Poll
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Actors:
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Jonathan Malen,
David Brown,
Eric Fink,
Tyler Hilton,
Dylan Taylor,
Ishan Davé,
Anton Yelchin,
Robert Downey Jr.,
Hope Davis,
Kat Dennings,
Mark Rendall,
Megan Park,
Jake Epstein,
Derek McGrath,
Stephen Young
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Duration:
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97 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)99
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Plot Summary:
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Although cheerful, friendly, well-dressed, and authentic, Charlie Bartlett has problems: his get is gone, his mamma is loopy and clueless, he's been expelled from personal schools in requital for victimless crimes, he's getting punched out constantly at his original public school, the close by universal high - and, he longs to be popular. He makes peace with his tormentor at hand going into business with him: listening to kids' problems and selling them medicament drugs. Charlie's attracted to Susan, the daughter of the 's laissez-faire principal. New conviction cameras on campus, a admirer's... overdose, and Charlie's open world aspect insert him in fooling trouble. Can the physician heal himself and perfectly be a kid?
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Charlie Bartlett
An attempt to consolidate every teen movie of the last 20 years into one easy-to-swallow feature
Charlie (a very likeable Yelchin) is expelled from public school for manufacturing fake IDs and, despite his well-heeled background and chauffeur-driven lifestyle, finds himself at a regular high school. There he's not at all popular. Not until he starts faking symptoms of various mental disorders to his shrink in order to sell his prescription drugs to fellow pupils.
Then everybody loves him and he's instantly transformed into "The Man", catching the eye of the principal's pouting daughter Susan (Dennings) and becoming a cross between an agony aunt and a drug dispensary to his fellow pupils.
Charlie Bartlett may just win the award as the most brazenly ...
Anyone got some Charlie?
I had a friend once who started dispensing glib advice and anti-depression drugs to his school 'chums' and got the ever loving cr*p kicked out of him on a daily basis. The guy in this film doesn't (well, once) - possibly because he is rich and could afford to pay someone like Hulk Hogan or Dog the Bounty Hunter to exact revenge. Not as good as a John Hughes movie, but better than a Chris Columbus movie. Yelchin the Belchin' is excellent, as is Robert Downey Jr., successfully playing a developmentally arrested drunk high school principle just before he played Iron and African-American. The guy has range.
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