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Eban and Charley (2000)

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Reviews Counted:9

Fresh:3

Rotten:6

Average Rating:4.1/10

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Dec 14, 2001 Limited

Synopsis: Eban, a teacher who is 29 years old and gay, returns to his parents' coastal home outside of Seattle for Christmas vacation. Charley is 15. After his mother was killed by a drunk driver, he is sent... Eban, a teacher who is 29 years old and gay, returns to his parents' coastal home outside of Seattle for Christmas vacation. Charley is 15. After his mother was killed by a drunk driver, he is sent to live in the same quiet Washington town with his strict military father. Eban and Charley strike up a friendship which becomes physical after young Charley makes the first move. But when both of their families learn of their relationship, they threaten to notify the police--and Eban and Charley are forced to make a tough decision. Director James Bolton's debut feature addresses a difficult subject with moral ambiguity. This shot-on-video film also features music by The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt. [More]

Starring: Brent Fellows, Giovanni Andrade, Ellie Nicholson, Drew Zeller

Starring: Brent Fellows, Giovanni Andrade, Ellie Nicholson, Drew Zeller, Pam Munter, Ron Upton, Nolan V. Chard

Director: James Bolton

Director: James Bolton
Screenwriter: James Bolton
Composer: Stephin Merritt
Studio: Picture This! Entertainment

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Dennis Harvey
Dennis Harvey
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May be the most boring film about forbidden love ever made.

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01/12/02
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Andrade has a tremulous, faun-like quality which rings true, and Fellows succeeds in making you eventually sympathize with Eban's tortured soul.

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01/11/02
David Noh
David Noh
Film Journal International

[Bolton] undermines his own carefully balanced presentation of the situation by making 29-year-old Eban (Brent Fellows) so creepy.

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01/11/02
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Preachy and humorless, Eban and Charley shocks only by the quality of its numbing solipsism.

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01/11/02
Ed Park
Ed Park
Village Voice
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There's not enough judgment being rendered by the filmmaker, who seems happy enough to portray his movie's relationship sympathetically because, after all, these things happen.

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01/11/02
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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Might best be described as preaching to a sparse congregation, or else Mr. Bolton is simply out to bore people into submission.

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01/11/02
Elvis Mitchell
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New York Times
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Bolton could easily have exploited the film's unsettling issues, but he takes a nonsensationalized approach that leaves viewers to decide the moral questions for themselves.

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01/11/02
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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Few things are quite as frustrating as a film that chooses a highly controversial subject then proceeds to give it the kid-glove treatment.

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01/11/02
David Ehrenstein
David Ehrenstein
New Times

Few people will be able to go along with Bolton's point of view regarding relationships between adults and underage youths, but there's no denying the writer-director, in his feature debut, has avoided sensationalism in telling this story.

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01/11/02
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