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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0883904107750
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 2242
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: February 22, 2008
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Product Description:
The kids at Western Summit High have 'issues' and newcomer Charlie Bartlett is coming to their rescue. With a briefcase full of prescription pills and a head full of pop psychology this rebel with a cause brings hilarious help to the student body and unending grief to their neurotic principal Mr. Gardner (Robert Downey Jr.). Suddenly Charlie is the hottest man on campus and he's even caught the eye of Gardner's sultry daughter. An outrageous send-up of today's Prozac generation Charlie Bartlett has your prescription for laugh-out-loud insanity!System Requirements:Running Time: 97 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/SCHOOL DAYS Rating: R UPC: 883904107750 Manufacturer No: M110775
Amazon.com:
The ghost of Ferris Bueller haunts Charlie Bartlett. In John Hughes' classic comedy, a wily principal chases a clever student all over Chicago. In editor-turned-director Jon Poll's darker-hued enterprise, the hero of the title (Huff's preternaturally poised Anton Yelchin) gets kicked out of private school for selling fake IDs, so his heavily-medicated mother (a reliably excellent Hope Davis) transfers her son to a public institution. Looking like a junior stockbroker in navy blazer and attaché case, he turns into a bully piñata, until he joins forces with surly dealer Murphey (Walk the Line’s Tyler Hilton) to sell prescription medication and split the profits (Charlie secures the meds from an assortment of pill-pushing psychiatrists). By listening to their problems and offering well-researched advice, the unlicensed doc becomes the most popular kid on campus. He even captures the interest of self-possessed drama queen Susan (The 40-Year-Old Virgin’s Kat Dennings), daughter of booze-soaked Principal Gardner (Robert Downey Jr. in top form). Gardner doesn't trust Charlie, but lacks the evidence to confirm his suspicions--so he sets out to secure some. Once he installs surveillance cameras, the game is on. By the end, the two competitors will have both lost... and won. Aside from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Charlie Bartlett recalls Wes Anderson's Rushmore, except Poll's Gustin Nash-penned satire trades counter-cultural cool for trenchant commentary about quick-fix solutions to deep-seated dilemmas. That means fewer laughs than its forerunners, but Charlie Bartlett presents a more penetrating analysis of today’s generation gap. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Just Awful
I generally do not post reviews on Amazon, but I'll be honest, I was absolutely shocked to see so many favorable (and even mediocre) reviews for this film, so I felt compelled to refute them.
This film is just awful, with the only redeeming aspect being Robert Downey Jr. Anton Yelchin is beyond irritating as the title character, Hope Davis overplays his mother to the point of nausea, and the script is just ludicrous. With the exception of Downey Jr., the overacting in this film literally ... Read More
Rating:  - People like you are the reason people like me need medication
This smokes Juno!Not necessarily real believable, but it is a funny, clever high school comedy.Just a notch below the classics Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller.
Charlie is just another teenager trying to fit in.A rich kid actually, expelled from numerous prep schools for different reasons.Now at public school, he gains instant notoreity as the prescription drug dealer.
This has lots of teenage angst, insecurities, family drama, and other uncertainties which are often the side effects ... Read More
Rating: - Entertaining little film.
Charlie Bartlett has a difficult time making friends. As he moves from one private school to another, by the time he finally begins to become popular he is expelled. The problem is that his popularity comes from doing something illegal. Charlie, ever the opportunist, has a creative and entrepreneurial mind for providing things that high school students should not have. As is the way (generally) with high school students, what they can't have is what they are willing to pay for. And Charlie will accept that risk ... Read More
Rating:  - Insantly a favorite
I just watched this film and I loved it.There was an interesting story line that wasn't one bit predictable, excellent actors who all played parts true to their actual ages, and parents who were not only interesting but also fundamental to the story line just as much as their kids.I want to re-watch it right now it was that good.This is classified as a comedy, but it's also a drama.There are true characters who you really care about and want to see how their troubles will be resolved.I urge people of all ... Read More
Rating: - The Besa Of high school
This is a great movie about how a high school kid tries to grow up too fast.And it great seeing Robert Downey Jr. in his role as the principle.For so long he's played the rebel, it's great to see him at the other end of the stick, and he does a great job
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