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  • Summary: Seducing Charlie Barker is a dark satire of the Manhattan entertainment industry in which a gifted actor, Charlie Barker, begins his fall from grace as he encounters a chameleon-like social climber. (Arc Entertainment II)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    Dec 7, 2011
    75
    Seducing Charlie Barker is a movie made by people who haven't been making movies, but should be. As in, often. As in, from now on.
  2. Reviewed by: Brian Miller
    Dec 7, 2011
    50
    In adapting her recent play The Scene, Theresa Rebeck can't find a consistent tone for her material or players.
  3. Reviewed by: Chuck Bowen
    Dec 8, 2011
    25
    Charlie is a stereotype who doesn't know it--basically your typical broke dude in a near midlife crisis who thinks he's the first to have his dull problems.

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