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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... [More]
Starring: Brent Fellows, Giovanni Andrade, Ellie Nicholson, Drew Zeller
Director: James Bolton
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Reviews for Eban and Charley
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01/12/02
Preachy and humorless, Eban and Charley shocks only by the quality of its numbing solipsism.
01/11/02
Might best be described as preaching to a sparse congregation, or else Mr. Bolton is simply out to bore people into submission.
01/11/02
Top CriticThere'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.
01/11/02
Top CriticMay be the most boring film about forbidden love ever made.
02/15/02
[Bolton] undermines his own carefully balanced presentation of the situation by making 29-year-old Eban (Brent Fellows) so creepy.
01/11/02
Andrade has a tremulous, faun-like quality which rings true, and Fellows succeeds in making you eventually sympathize with Eban's tortured soul.
01/11/02
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.
01/11/02
Top CriticBolton 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.
01/11/02
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