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NUMBERS
Box Office: $5,293,525
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CONSENSUS
Newton has star quality, but this exercise in style can't hold a candle to the original.
CAST & CREW
Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, Tim Robbins
Directed by Jonathan Demme
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SYNOPSIS
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. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, some violence and sexual content/nudity
RUNTIME
1 hour, 44 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 25, 2002
Video: Apr 1, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Universal Pictures
GENRE
Dramas, Romance, Thriller, Murder, Mystery/Suspense, Crime, Paris, France, Mobsters
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Truth About Charlie Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "[Newton]wanders through CHARLIE completely unaware she needs to show some presence and star quality."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"Demme's loose approach kills the suspense."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"The camera whirls! The camera twirls! Oh, look at that clever angle! Wow, a jump cut!"
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"Somewhere in the middle, the film compels, as Demme experiments he harvests a few movie moment gems, but the field of roughage dominates."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"A woozy, roisterous, exhausting mess, and the off-beat casting of its two leads turns out to be as ill-starred as you might expect."
-- Gregory Avery, NITRATE ONLINE
"Mark Wahlberg...may look classy in a '60s-homage pokepie hat, but as a character he's dry, dry, dry."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
 "I found myself liking the film, though in this case one man's treasure could prove to be another man's garbage."
-- Gary Brown, HOUSTON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
"The soupy end result has the odd distinction of being playful without being fun, too."
-- Bill Chambers, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Has an uppity musical beat that you can dance to, but its energy can’t compare to the wit, humor and snappy dialogue of the original. If I want music, I’ll buy the soundtrack. If I want a real movie, I’ll buy the Criterion DVD."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"[Demme] creates a film that is both traditional, in keeping with its source material, and new millennium hip."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"That such a horrible movie could have sprung from such a great one is one of the year’s worst cinematic tragedies."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"The fact that the 'best part' of the movie comes from a 60-second homage to one of Demme's good films doesn't bode well for the rest of it."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Demme finally succeeds in diminishing his stature from Oscar-winning master to lowly studio hack."
-- Michael Dubois, MOVIELINE
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"Comes across as a fairly weak retooling."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Just one bad idea after another."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"Very amusing, not the usual route in a thriller, and the performances are odd and pixilated and sometimes both."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"The truth about Charlie is that it's a brazenly misguided project."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"Boring and meandering."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"fresh, jazzy and fun"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Did we really need a remake of "Charade?""
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"Apallingly absurd...the chemistry or lack thereof between Newton and Wahlberg could turn an Imax theater into a 9" black and white portable TV."
-- Spyder Darling, NY ROCK
"It can't decide if it wants to be a mystery/thriller, a romance or a comedy."
-- Paul Doro, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"The truth is that The Truth About Charlie gets increasingly tiresome."
-- David Edelstein, SLATE
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ROTTEN 45%
Avg. Rating: 5.8/10 |
"A movie that, rather than skip along the Seine, more or less slogs its way through soggy Paris, tongue uncomfortably in cheek."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"The affectionate loopiness that once seemed congenital to Demme's perspective has a tough time emerging from between the badly dated cutesy-pie mystery scenario and the newfangled Hollywood post-production effects."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"Newton draws our attention like a magnet, and acts circles around her better known co-star, Mark Wahlberg."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Demme gets a lot of flavor and spice into his Charade remake, but he can't disguise that he's spiffing up leftovers that aren't so substantial or fresh."
-- Mark Caro, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"No matter how you slice it, Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton are not Hepburn and Grant, two cinematic icons with chemistry galore."
-- Paul Clinton, CNN
"It's a sometimes interesting remake that doesn't compare to the brilliant original."
-- Jonathan Curiel, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"It almost feels as if the movie is more interested in entertaining itself than in amusing us."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"If it is true that there will never be another Audrey Hepburn, and it is, I submit it is also true that there will never be another Thandie Newton."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"It would be hard to think of a recent movie that has worked this hard to achieve this little fun."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Not counting a few gross-out comedies I've been trying to forget, this is the first film in a long time that made me want to bolt the theater in the first 10 minutes."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
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"The problem with concept films is that if the concept is a poor one, there's no saving the movie. Sorry, Charlie"
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "The Truth About Charlie" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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