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The Truth About Charlie

MPA Rating: PG-13-Rating (MPA)

for for some violence and sexual content/nudity.

Moral Rating:	not reviewed
Moviemaking Quality:
Primary Audience:	Teens Adults
Genre:	Crime Thriller
Length:	1 hr. 44 min.
Year of Release:	2002
USA Release:

Simon Abkarian in “The Truth About Charlie”

Featuring	Mark Wahlberg, Thandiwe Newton, Tim Robbins, Christine Boisson, Stephen Dillane
Director	Jonathan Demme
Producer	Edward Saxon, Ed Saxon, Jonathan Demme, Peter Saraf, Luc Besson
Distributor	Universal Pictures

Negative
Young people
Critics

Negative

Negative—The opening scene is a woman in very revealing underwear. What did it have to do with the movie? Oh absolutely nothing. I don’t remember anything else very morally objectionable. But even from a secular standpoint, no one could like this movie. It was weird, random, and disconnected. It was a murder mystery, with every weird thing added in.
My Ratings: [Average / 1]

Pheel, age 19

Comments from young people

Negative—My friends and I went to go see this movie one night on a spur of the moment kind of thing because the other movie we had intended to see was sold out, and I would not recommend this movie to anyone!! The movie was not necessarily offensive in its morals.

There was hardly any bad language, however there was some frontal nudity of a woman in the first scene. I just did not like the movie because the plot was not very developed and there were very random illogical happenings throughout the entire film. I left the theater feeling disappointed that I had spent my money on this film.
My Ratings: [Average / 1]

Emily, age 18

Movie Critics

…marginally entertaining [but] can’t even be compared to the classic Charade…

Holly McClure, Crosswalk

…a jumbled, irritating mess of a movie…

Michael Elliott, Movie Parables

…[There is a surprising] “absence of foul language with only one s-word and a few exclamatory profanities…

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