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The Truth About Charlie

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Germany, United States · 2002
Rated PG-13 · 1h 44m
Director Jonathan Demme
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Thandiwe Newton, Tim Robbins, Christine Boisson
Genre Thriller

A remake of the 1963 film Charade, The Truth About Charlie is a thriller about a woman suddenly thrown into a mystery beyond her comprehension. When she returns home from a vacation in Martinique, she finds her husband dead and all their money gone. With four men now pursuing her in search of her husband's fortune, she accepts help from a mysterious, handsome stranger.

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Slate by David Edelstein

I wish it were as much fun as its prospectus. The truth is that The Truth About Charlie gets increasingly tiresome.

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Portland Oregonian by Kim Morgan

It's nice that Demme reveres the Hollywood classic, the French cinema and the glamour of his actors. But nice is all The Truth About Charlie is -- a nice mess.

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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Where "Charade" unfolds in a fantasy Paris full of glamorous white people, Demme's film takes place in a gray tangle of streets teeming with multi-ethnic Parisians. Newton and Robbins mimic Hepburn and Matthau, while Wahlberg is the anti-Grant, lumpen and thuggish rather than beguilingly debonair.

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Dallas Observer by Robert Wilonsky

Charlie doesn't have a point, doesn't give a damn about giving a damn. It is what it is: a beautiful goof, a drunken supermodel in search of one more party before the sun comes up.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

The plot is essentially a backdrop, as it was in "Charade," for Paris, suspense, romance and star power -- If it is true that there will never be another Audrey Hepburn, and it is, I submit it is also true that there will never be another Thandie Newton.

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Variety by Todd McCarthy

Dazzlingly nimble and light on its feet, this breezy but densely textured love letter to modern, multicultural Paris in the guise of a romantic suspenser returns its director to the vibrant vein of his pre-Oscar work in "Something Wild" and "Married to the Mob."

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