The Education of Charlie Banks

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Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Ritter, Christopher Marquette, Eva Amurri, Sebastian Stan, Gloria Votsis.
Charlie Banks is a 16-year old who is a socially responsible upper west-sider. Charlie witnesses charismatic blue collar sociopath 18-year old Mick Leary brutally beat two unwitting suburban jocks at a high school party. Mick is a west village neighborhood buddy of Charlie's best friend. Soon, Charlie's conscience gets the better of him. Telling only his parents, he reports Mick to the police. Several years later, Charlie is in college and Mick visits the campus for a weekend. The two begin a game of cat and mouse. Nice one moment, and threatening the next, Mick keeps Charlie guessing. But Mick stays longer and begins a strange course of assimilation, donning borrowed cashmere and begins reading Charlie's books and auditing his classes. Soon Charlie begins to wonder if the intellectual caress of higher education can redeem even someone seemingly as far gone as Mick.
DVD, widescreen ([2.35:1]).

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A Miseducation, If Anything submitted by lolitasays on September 11, 2010, 1:03pm Musician Fred Durst's directorial debut shines in small areas--musical score, picturesque montages--but ultimately fails in what makes a film "good." Charlie Banks, played by the ineffably awkward Jesse Eisenberg, is an over-privileged kid with a big heart, and an even bigger sense of morality. He attends school at an unnamed Ivy in Connecticut, and leads a life that surrounds "books and girls." When Mick Leary shows up, an old friend of Charlie's roommate, life becomes a little different. Mick's seamless insertion into the high life jars Charlie, who holds a secret connected to Mick's violent past. We've seen it all before; the kid from the other side of the tracks enters the realm of the Chosen Ones (where private jets and spontaneous boat purchases abound) and we see he's not so different after all..or is he? The movie isn't terrible. The score is amazing--grand, gestural symphonies allow the viewer to settle into the beautiful vine-covered brick and the seaside landscape. Ultimately, I couldn't decide if I was supposed to like Mick, who in certain ways has a better moral compass than all of the social upper crusters, or if I should hate him (the last scene turns him into a drunken brute). At the conclusion of the film, Charlie's plot-dropping voice-over narrative talks about how Mick's entrance into his life comes just as quickly as his exit, and finally, I found I could relate. This film, like Mick, flits in and out of my consciousness in such a way that I wonder if I ever really saw it all. If you like jokes about rich kids and visceral violence, you'll enjoy this immensely. If you like women with character development, or any character development for that matter, keep looking.

what a fraud. the first review is just a copy and paste, NOT "lolitasays"'s own review. Pathetic. submitted by Tassos on November 27, 2021, 2:58pm I did not like the stupid movie, about the usual idiots that populate our third-rate colleges thanks to their parent's generosity.