The Truth About Charlie

For film students in search of paper topics, Jonathan Demme's remake of the Audrey Hepburn/Cary Grant caper picture CHARADE (1963) is a godsend. Unfortunately, it's also the kind of spectacularly misconceived enterprise that only a sophisticated cinephile could have perpetrated, a monumental movie-geek lark on the order of Gus Van Sant's meticulous "recreation" of Hitchcock's PSYCHO (1998). While vacationing in the Caribbean, unhappily married Regina "Reggie" Lambert (Thandie Newton) decides to divorce Charles (Stephen Dillane), whom she impulsively wed after a whirlwind courtship. But when she returns home, she finds their Paris apartment ransacked and police office...