Charlie Bartlett

This is your classic, Ferris Bueler style melodramatic metamorphasis style film about a kid trying to fit in and learns about himself in the process. Now do me a favor and please don't jump to conclusions. Ferris Bueler was great wasn't it? But regardless there are huge differences. Bartlett is a kid who is expelled from his private school for making fake ID's and is forced to go a public school. Initially he recieves a lot of crap for being a "suit" because he still wears his private school attire. Charlie gets picked on and laughed at for being different and new. First Charlie makes friends with this suicidal lonely kid who needs help and eventually becomes a student phycologist who makes recommendations to kids who are in need. Ironically, Charlie also is seeing a gullible phychaitrist who believes that Charlie has come down with all of these mental ailments, which he of course pretends to have. Charlie then decides to start selling prescription drugs after having an epiphany.

I wont give away any details but this movie encompasses a plethera of other teenage themes: wexuality, drug experimentation, mood swings, washed up alcoholic parents, and popularity. I'd give it an 9/10. Into the Wild gets about a 9.3/10 and Blues Brothers gets about a 8.9/10, just to give you an idea of where my ratings stand.

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