Ferris Bueller, Max Fischer, Igby Slocum: Meet your new classmate, 17-year-old Charlie Bartlett, the latest in a long line of sensitive movie preppies and the hero of editor-turned-director Jon Poll's harmless, occasionally entertaining debut feature.
Kicked out of the prestigious Castlewood School for peddling fake Connecticut drivers' licenses to his classmates, baby-faced junior entrepreneur Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) returns to the huge family home where his tipsy, medicated mother, Marilyn (Hope Davis), has been rattling around since Dad left the picture. Lonely Marilyn, who always treated her son more like an adult than a kid, is thrilled, and t...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins