Charly PG

A love story that begins with an incredible experiment!
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 5, 2019
  • Originally Released: 1968
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1968 - Best Actor: Cliff Robertson

Entertainment Reviews:

Fresh63%

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Total Count: 19

Upright62%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 3,848
Instead of frittering away time on an unmotivated romance, it would have been interesting if the reasons for this psychologically complicated affair were explored. Full Review
Variety
Jun 13, 2019
Rating: 2.5/5 -- another example of a memorable book which ends up diluted by the lesser talents of screenwriters Full Review
Filmcritic.com
Mar 12, 2005
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Well-acted drama about a retarded man who is turned into a genius in a scientific experiment and then regresses to his original state again. Full Review
Sci-Fi Movie Page
Jan 16, 2005
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Several sequences are risible (Charly as a surly biker?), the romance is scarcely believable, and the use of split-screen quickly grows wearying. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Feb 8, 2019
Rating: C+ -- Cliff Robertson was rewarded with an Oscar for repeating his TV role, that of a mentally retarded man, and for paying with his own money for the screen adaptation of the popular novel, directed in a pedestrian mode by Ralph Nelson. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Apr 20, 2007
Rating: 2/4 -- ...the fact that the majority of Charly feels utterly superfluous. Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Mar 12, 2005
Rating: 2.5/4 -- The film's main problem is that director Ralph Nelson virtually ignores the philosophical elements of the story and emphasizes its most maudlin aspects, while throwing in a little sci-fi, romance, and spurious social commentary. Full Review
TV Guide
Jun 6, 2007

Product Description:

This intriguing drama, directed tenderly by Ralph Nelson, is based on the story FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON by Daniel Keyes. The plot centers around a mentally retarded adult who instantly matures as the result of an operation on his brain. The result is a hybrid of documentary, romance, social drama and science fiction. Cliff Robertson is unpredictably touching as Charly Gordon, the sudden grown-up, and gives a hard-earned Academy Award winning performance. Claire Bloom is simple and magnetic as Alice Kinian, his sympathetic and protective caseworker. As his teacher, Miss Kinian, takes Charly to a clinic where doctors, who have Charly compete with a mouse named Algernon, observe him. Algernon, a once retarded mouse, is usually the winner thanks to an experiment that has greatly raised his intelligence. This experiment is given to Charly, who initially isn't affected. However, he gradually becomes more and more educated, eventually becoming a genius. This change effects not only Charly but also all the people who have contributed to his metamorphosis.

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  • UPC: 738329228354
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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