The Truth About Charlie2002
The Truth About Charlie (2002)
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as Regina Lambert
as Joshua Peters
as Mr. Bartholomew
as Il-Sang Lee
as Emile
as Lola
as Dominique
as Charlie
as Karina
as Mysterious Woman in Black
as The Widow Hyppolite
as Himself
as Lieutenant Dessalines
as Madame du Lac
as Sylvia
as Junior Military Officer
as Woman on Train
as Hercules
as Morgue Attendant
as Evidence Handler
as Evidence Handler
as Themselves
as Jordan Castor
as Romantic Taxi Driver
as Amiable Desk Clerk
as Hotel Barman
as Lonely Clown
as Hotel Langlois Chambermaid
as `Aznavour Fan' Desk Clerk
as Toy Store Manager
as Toy Store Salesgirl
as African Dignitary
as Undercover ODC
as Undercover ODC
as Undercover Cop
as Undercover Cop
as Undercover Cop
as Undercover Cop
as Undercover Cop
as Undercover Cop
as Ticket Agent
as Saian Supa Crew Member
as Saian Supa Crew Member
as Saian Supa Crew Member
as Saian Supa Crew Member
as Saian Supa Crew Member
as Saian Supa Crew Member
as Cafe Waiter
as Cafe Cook
as Chez Josephine Maitre d'
as Karina Fan
as Bistro Singer
as Shouting Waiter
as Flea Market Bargain Hunter
as Flea Market Bargain Hunter
as The Late Monsieur Hyppolite
as Dealer Prophete
as Angry Man on Metro
as Young Girl with Pug
as Ms. Hoskins
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Demme's movie is so benign--he likes all his characters, even the villains--it feels like a game of "let's pretend." It's a movie for movie lovers--playful, hip and light as a feather.
I realize that Mark Wahlberg is not Cary Grant, but shouldn't there be some compensating reason for his presence in this movie?
The 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.
Audience Reviews for The Truth About Charlie
Very cool film that doesn't quite approach the level of Matt Damon in the Bourne series but is nonetheless tremendously entertaining with many delightful and unexpected cameos.
Super Reviewer
Tak Fujimoto and Jonathan Demme have shot this a lot hipper than anyone half their age could. Thandie Newton is great & funny, magically cute at few moments, and beautiful the rest of the time. She would make a fine, and definitely sexier, replacement for Audrey Hepburn in several films. The writers seem to have assumed that since no one can compete with Cary Grant, Mark Wahlberg shouldn't have good lines to work with. The homages to the French New Wave are clever and prettily situated, but they dispel the suspense atmosphere, and -- for me -- make the movie look like it's catering to anglophone snobs who can't stand a mere thriller. And Demme doesn't want to do a mere thriller that's hipper and more involving than usual. He casts the bad guys as an ethnic rainbow, and it turns out none of them are really bad, just misunderstood and misunderstanding other people. (Scary hook-hand guy from the original is now just a big lunk who requires electroacupuncture so he doesn't expire from cardiopulmonary stress -- I'm serious.) Each of the bad guys even hates violence; the only one comfortable with it is a betrayed 50s straight-arrow military type that was too unhip to be in the original Charade. Demme's kind of liberalism seems to aspire not only to banish all sense of menace from society, but also from its movie genres. (Star rating for Tak Fujimoto and Thandie Newton.)
Super Reviewer
Have you ever watched a movie and thought that you've seen it already. That happened to me with this movie. It was as interesting the second time as the first. The only thing I could remember from the first time to the second was that stamps were involved. 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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