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However, Charlie quickly discovers that things work a little differently here. But he is a master of adaptation. With his unshakeable optimism, keen intelligence and unerring instinct for a good deal, he comes up with a solution to this too. To win popularity points with his classmates, Charlie promptly opens a small psychotherapy practice in the school toilets and dispenses plenty of blue, pink and green pills along with his good advice. His arsenal of medication ranges from Prozac and Retalin to Haldol. But he soon realises that his schoolmates need far more than colourful pills. What they really lack is someone who listens to them. In his own peculiar, unconventional way, Charlie takes up the fight against loneliness, isolation and panic attacks, changing not only his classmates’ lives but his own as well.
With an original dose of black humour, CHARLIE BARTLETT is the feel-good movie of this year’s cinema spring. Refreshing, charming and always with a mischievous smile: that is how rising talent Anton Yelchin (also appearing as Chekov in “Star Trek” in 2008) wins hearts as Charlie Bartlett alongside Robert Downey Jr., who has to battle idiosyncratic demons as Principal Gardner.
A film by John Poll with Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey jr., Hope Davis, Kat Dennings, Tyler Hilton and others.
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