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Studio: MGM
Genre: Comedy • Drama
Street Date: June 24, 2008
Director: Jon Poll
Number of Discs: 1
MPAA Rating: R
Cast: • Hope Davis
• Robert Downey Jr.
• Anton Yelchin
Running Time: 97 minutes
Format: Standard

DVD Specs: Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Color, Standard 1.33:1 Color (Full screen and Widescreen)

Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1, SPANISH: Dolby Digital Surround

Subtitles: Spanish
Special Features: Commentary with director Jon Poll and writer Gustin Nash

Commentary with director Jon Poll and editor Alan Baumgarten

Commentary with director Jon Poll, actors Anton Yelchin and Kat Dennings

Restroom confessionals

Spiral Beach – “Voodoo” music video

Deleted scenes

Featurettes
Version: Standard
Store Exclusives: Free Coupon For A Counseling Session With Mikey.
Review: Watching the trailer I think many people are going to assume this is yet another film trying to crack the Ferris/Van Wilder code.

It's not. This movie is not some wild adventure of a student the runs circles around the powers that be, this is a far more down to earth story about the crappiness of being a young adult in this world while trying to live by the rules and find your identity.

Lets be honest; High School was either a really fun happy time for you or it was like a hell you had to face everyday and hoped you survived long enough to get a stupid piece of paper. Sure a few people fall in the middle ground between the two but not many…and if you did count yourself lucky.

How did you face the long years waiting for escape? Drugs? Booze? Awkward Teenage Sex? Star Trek Re-enactments? Well if you said yes to more than two of those congratulations because you’ve just earned yourself an appointment in the boys room with Charlie Bartlett..on no it’s not to solicit sex (save that for the bathrooms at the Denver Airport ya freaks) it’s for counseling sessions complete with pharmaceuticals!

When we meet Charlie he’s being kicked out of yet another private school leaving him to face the horrors of *gasp* public school. Naturally he kicks his head kicked in on day one and is forced to find new and interesting ways to either fit in or get kicked out. What begins as a business venture to sell Ritalin turns into a full blow private practice with benefits.

Along the way Charlie finds himself as a hero to all the kids on campus he’s helped or those he’s helped just get high. Either way he’s living on cloud nine. Until his popularity becomes a problem with the principle (Robert Downey Jr) and makes him a target for any wrong doing at the school.

Despite being in the cross hairs of the powers that be Charlie continues his reign of power and positivity, until one of the really morose kids decided to off him self with pills gotten from Charlie’s private practice.

Not one to give up Charlie continues on his quest to help these kids (without pills) and shows everyone what they are really made of and that they can do anything the set their minds to. Which of course helps give Charlie the boost he needs to get his own life back on track and closure to the demons of his past.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from this one, I’d seen the trailers and wanted to see it but missed the screenings before its theatrical run. I really like Charlie and his world of nut cases (adults and kids alike), while some of the circumstance might be a little out there it’s a decent tackling of how ugly teen angst can be when nobody is bothering to listen.
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Rating: 4 Stars

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