Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 02/22/08 Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated R for language, drug content and brief nudity Running Time 1 hour 37 minutes Genre Comedy Director Jon Poll Writer Gustin Nash Cast Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, Tyler Hilton, Jake Epstein, Lauren Collins, Dylan Taylor, Mark Rendall, Kat Dennings, Derek McGrath Studio Sidney Kimmel |
CHARLIE BARLETT (2008)
Among the classic high-school rebels of American
movies, there have been truants, delinquents,
pranksters and con artists – but there has never
been anyone quite like Charlie Bartlett. An optimist,
a truth-teller and a fearless schemer, when Charlie
slyly positions himself as his new school’s resident
“psychiatrist,” dishing out both honest advice and
powerful prescriptions, he has no idea the ways in
which he will transform his classmates, the school
principal and the potential of his own life.
This is the premise of the provocative, Prozac-era
comedy, CHARLIE BARTLETT, in which a wealthy
teenager’s foray into bathroom-stall psychiatry
becomes a smart, funny and touching one-man
battle against the loneliness, angst and hypocrisy of
the modern world.
.-- ©Sidney Kimmel
movies, there have been truants, delinquents,
pranksters and con artists – but there has never
been anyone quite like Charlie Bartlett. An optimist,
a truth-teller and a fearless schemer, when Charlie
slyly positions himself as his new school’s resident
“psychiatrist,” dishing out both honest advice and
powerful prescriptions, he has no idea the ways in
which he will transform his classmates, the school
principal and the potential of his own life.
This is the premise of the provocative, Prozac-era
comedy, CHARLIE BARTLETT, in which a wealthy
teenager’s foray into bathroom-stall psychiatry
becomes a smart, funny and touching one-man
battle against the loneliness, angst and hypocrisy of
the modern world.
.-- ©Sidney Kimmel
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