The Truth About Charlie (2002)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 132
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 88
Newton has star quality, but this exercise in style can't hold a candle to the original.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 21
Newton has star quality, but this exercise in style can't hold a candle to the original.
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Director Jonathan Demme filters the classic Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant vehicle Charade through the influence of the French New Wave in this stylish romantic thriller. Regina Lambert (Thandie Newton) has been having second thoughts about her marriage to the often enigmatic art dealer Charlie (Stephen Dillane), and decides to take a vacation without him, where she meets Joshua Peters (Mark Wahlberg), a handsome and charming American who seems quite taken with her. When Regina returns home to
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Cast
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Mark Wahlberg
Joshua Peters -
Thandie Newton
Regina Lambert -
Tim Robbins
Mr. Bartholomew -
Joong-Hoon Park
Il-Sang Lee -
Ted Levine
Emil Zadapec -
Lisa Gay Hamilton
Lola Jansco -
Christine Boisson
Commandant Dominique -
Stephen Dillane
Charlie -
Simon Abkarian
Lt. Dessalines -
Frédérique Meininger
Madame du Lac -
Charles Aznavour
Himself -
Anna Karina
Herself -
Magali Noël
Mysterious Woman in Bla... -
Sakina Jaffrey
Sylvia -
Wilfred Benaiche
Toy Store Manager -
Olga Sekulic
Junior Military Officer -
Pierre Carre
Bistro Singer -
Sotigui Kouyaté
Dealer Prophete -
Agnès Varda
The Widow Hyppolite -
Françoise Bertin
Woman on Train -
Saian Supa Crew
Themselves -
James Brooks
Jordan Castor
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All Critics (144) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (89) | DVD (9)
I realize that Mark Wahlberg is not Cary Grant, but shouldn't there be some compensating reason for his presence in this movie?
Top CriticThe truth is that The Truth About Charlie gets increasingly tiresome.
It's a forgery that diminishes not only the originality and pleasure of the film it copies, but also the entire school of filmmaking it wants to emulate.
May not be and should not be everyone's cup of tea, but at the end of it, I felt a guilty affection for all its participants.
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.
The Truth About Charlie isn't stupid or dull, but it has just too many flaws for me to recommend it.
A bad remake of a good movie.
Newton's a radiant beam of beguiling star power in this stylish muddle.
... a story as mixed up (yet with an outcome as predictable) as a plate of spaghetti.
Apaixonado por sua própria 'sabedoria' ao transformar esta refilmagem em uma homenagem à nouvelle vague, Demme cria um filme irritante e confuso em seu tom e em seus propósitos, prejudicando-se ainda mais em função da péssima performance de Newton.
Along with a worthless behind-the-scenes featurette and some deleted scenes that needn't have been, the original feature Charade is included, which only shames the remake by comparison.
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The movie is a whodunit, except from the point of view of a new wife who returns from a vacation and finds her husband has been murdered. It takes the whole movie for her and the viewers to find out about the husband's prior life and who killed him and why.
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