Charlie Bartlett is a 2007 American comedy drama film directed by Jon Poll. The screenplay by Gustin Nash focuses on a teenager who begins to dispense therapeutic advice and prescription drugs to the student body at his new high school in order to become popular.
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 1, 2007 and was shown at the Cannes Film Market, the Maui Film Festival, and the Cambridge Film Festival before going into theatric...
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Charlie Bartlett is a 2007 American comedy drama film directed by Jon Poll. The screenplay by Gustin Nash focuses on a teenager who begins to dispense therapeutic advice and prescription drugs to the student body at his new high school in order to become popular.
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 1, 2007 and was shown at the Cannes Film Market, the Maui Film Festival, and the Cambridge Film Festival before going into theatrical release in the United States and Canada on February 22, 2008.
The son of a depressed but doting mother and a father who is serving time for tax evasion, wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett enrolls in a public high school run by embittered alcoholic Principal Nathan Gardner after being expelled from several private academies for various infractions. Unable to fit in with most of his fellow students, Charlie forms an alliance with school bully Murphy Bivens and offers him half the proceeds from the sale of a variety of prescription drugs...
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