The Truth About Charlie

Name: The Truth About Charlie
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Released: October 25, 2002
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Thandiwe Newton

2002

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: October 25, 2002 | PG-13

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Thandiwe Newton

Summary: An exhilarating combination of romance and suspense ignites sparks of all kinds against the backdrop of an edgy, modern Paris in The Truth About Charlie, Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme's fresh take on the 1963 Stanley Donen film "Charade." [Universal]

Director: Jonathan Demme

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 104 min

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Michael Sragow

A sophisticated thrill. And incandescent Thandie Newton is a worthy successor to Audrey Hepburn in 'Charade.' Read full review

David Sterritt

Chalk this razzle-dazzle chase picture up as effective Friday-night entertainment, not the heart-stirring romantic thriller it might have been. That's the real truth about "Charlie." Read full review

Anthony Lane

Viewers will be split between those who wonder about this silly, trumped-up story and those who already know and love the silliness for what it was. [4 November 2002, p. 110]

David Edelstein

I wish it were as much fun as its prospectus. The truth is that The Truth About Charlie gets increasingly tiresome. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

The trouble with The Truth About Charlie is that it really is after the truth about Charlie, a character we could hardly give a damn about. The only charade is the illusion that we might actually be entertained. Read full review

Jonathan Curiel

A sometimes interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brilliant original. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

At once listless and overheated, giddy and utterly zipless, the current incarnation lacks not just the savoir-faire of its stylish predecessor but also the sex appeal. Read full review

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JohnS.

Aug 31, 2007

It was a good movie not as good as the original but pretty good on its own.

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James

Jun 7, 2006

Appalling. It's not like there wasn't a formula for the makers of this pointless remake to follow, the original worked, it could have been updated, if not equalled. Instead, Demme throws out everything that made the original great - romance, humor, suspense, intelligent pacing, Appalling. It's not like there wasn't a formula for the makers of this pointless remake to follow, the original worked, it could have been updated, if not equalled. Instead, Demme throws out everything that made the original great - romance, humor, suspense, intelligent pacing, all so he can make a movie that seems to parody mainstream genre films and act as a self-satisfied exercise in "New Wave" mimicry. Except the "New Wave" films were just that, new, they were doing something original. Demme's film seems an excuse for him to enjoy working in Paris, it certainly isn't coherent. Plot elements are raised, then forgotten, and what on earth is the crazy mother who murders people doing here, is this a comedy? And the finale, in which the characters seem to lose interest in the mystery, just as the audience has done by this point. Moronic. The definition of the pointless remake, makes Gos Van Sant's "Psycho" seem creative and original. Garbage.… Expand

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