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First Review: The nervous charisma of indie leading man Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland) carries The Education of Charlie Banks, a story of doomed ambition, hopeless yearning, and lingering guilt. When teenaged Charlie Banks (Eisenberg) witnessed a handsome bully named Mick (Jason Ritter, Freddy Vs. Jason) beat up two other boys, he tells the police--but then, feeling like a rat, withdraws his testimony so that Mick gets released. A few years later, when Mick suddenly appears at Charlie’s dorm for a visit, Charlie lives in dread that his betrayal will be revealed. But as Mick successfully woos the girl Charlie’s in love with, Charlie and Mick grown enmeshed in mutual envy and reluctant admiration. The Education of Charlie Banks aspires to be a preppy version of The Great Gatsby (just to make that clear, the characters twice make references to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel), peppered with philosophical allusions to Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida. Unfortunately, despite Charlie and Mick’s backstory, these kids just don’t have enough of a past to seem driven or haunted--they just flounder like any other bunch of boozing, horny college students. Mick comes across as a junior-varsity Tom Ripley, more stalker than star-crossed. Still, it’s a surprisingly smooth-flowing movie from Fred Durst, the former lead singer of rap-metal band Limp Bizkit. Also featuring Eva Amurri
Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime: 100 minutes
Rating: 7.1/10
Languages: English
Director:
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS
Writing by :
Peter Elkoff - writer
Produced by:
Declan Baldwin - co-producer
Tove Christensen - associate producer
Ged Dickersin - line producer
Peter Elkoff - executive producer
Tamara Friedman - post-production producer
Ken Guarino - executive producer
Sam Maydew - executive producer
Marisa Polvino - producer
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Cast:
Jesse Eisenberg - Charlie
Jason Ritter - Mick
Eva Amurri - Mary
Chris Marquette - Danny
Sebastian Stan - Leo
Gloria Votsis - Nia
Danny A. Abeckaser - Arresting Officer
Dennis Boutsikaris - Mr. Banks
Miles Chandler - Young Mick
Sam Daly - Owen
William DeCoff - Airport Valet
Amanda Donaghey - Glee Club Member
Alex Guarino - Buzzy Tim
Steven Hinkle - Young Charlie
Gabe Karon - Terry
Olivia Keister - Michelle
Cain Kerner - Young Danny
Nicholas Leiter Mele - Screaming Kid
Charles Parnell - Asst. DA Worsheck
Todd Poudrier - Pilot
Josh Richman - Professor Gersten
Vincent James Russo - 1970's Rocker
Jeremy Schwartz - Bartender
Gabby Sherba - Gabby
James Zimmerman - Tim
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Plot: Early on, The Education of Charlie Banks has all the makings of a corny coming-of-age melodrama about a couple of New York City working-class underdogs making the Ivy League grade and winning the approval of the moneyed power brokers of the future.
But Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst's directorial debut – his second feature, The Longshots, was released first, last summer – soon evolves into an earnest, if romanticized, examination of the American class system in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the eternally confounding politics of acceptance and exclusion. Charlie (Jesse Eisenberg), a bookish and clumsy teenager whose parents run a book store in Greenwich Village, and his rebellious buddy Danny (Christopher Marquette), earn their entrée into an expensive rural college and find themselves in the privileged ranks of a cluster of self-absorbed trust-fund babies. But their past – in the form of Mick (Jason Ritter), a violent street tough from their old neighbourhood whom Charlie once ratted out – suddenly catches up with them, and their new life begins to crumble.
Prevailing upon class allegiances, Mick takes up residence "for a few days" in Charlie's and Danny's dorm, but his rough charm and rugged ways soon endear him to the larger clique, particularly to the winsome Mary (Eva Amurri), with whom Charlie has fallen in love at a respectful distance. Mick accepts no barriers, no conventions, and as the semester draws on, he becomes an increasingly active member of the college community and an amusing chum to the gang's leading man, Leo (Sebastian Stan), a raffish, unimaginably wealthy playboy-in-the-making with a serious drinking problem.
It's as much a surprise to Charlie when Mick's presumptions and pretensions – he starts to imagine he's a permanent part of this world – and his brute response to hints of non-acceptance set up potentially tragic consequences. With Gatsby crumbs strewn throughout writer Peter Elkoff's script and the fatalistic, F. Scott Fitzgerald-like tone Durst brings to the deepening drama, it can't be said that The Education of Charlie Banks breaks new ground. Its revelations are old news. But the characters are handled sensitively and intelligently – Ritter makes a compelling toad who wants to be a prince – and Durst moves the story forward with great care and assurance, paying respectful attention to period details (soundtrack, clothes, mannerisms, language) without making a spectacle of them.
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