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Charlie Countryman
A dream leading Charlie to a Romanian beauty, Gabi. Married to a brutal criminal Gabi has no way to escape from the vicious man. Charlie risks his life for his beloved to be by trying to set her free from the gangster.
9 March 1942, Bucharest, Romania
18 July 1968, Bucharest, Romania
14 September 1960, New York City, New York, USA
22 November 1965, Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark
26 June 1984, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
24 August 1988, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK
August 26, 2015
Ultimately, Charlie Countryman bites off more than it can chew and winds up feeling more absurd than memorable.November 03, 2014
As for Shia, he's wildly self-indulgent and narcissistic: all puppy eyes, emoting and angsting like there's no tomorrow. He just doesn't know when eneouf is eneouf.November 15, 2013
However you cut it, with all that talent, Charlie Countryman feels like a sad, wasted opportunity.October 31, 2014
This is a weird and self-indulgent affair that is easy to mock but that, just occasionally, captures the romantic feel of the equally pretentious but magical Leos Carax films of the late 1980s.November 15, 2013
This catastrophe of a movie zigzags drunkenly between action-adventure and surreal comedy with some magical realism slopped over it like ketchup.November 15, 2013
Ah, Bucharest. That exotic, Eastern European hotbed of romance, intrigue and hefty film-production tax breaks.November 15, 2013
Even though you learn that Charlie is absolute aces at running from bad guys, the character pretty much remains a confusing, empty vessel. As does the movie.November 15, 2013
It's a thoroughly queasy pastiche of magic-realism/coming-of-age/romantic-thriller/bloody-Chiclets nonsense (and when I say "nonsense" I am substituting a much stronger word).November 19, 2014
A wildly unauthentic offering, that manages to take such raw, human emotions, and produce a picture that revels, frustratingly, in frivolity and irreverence.October 31, 2014
An eccentric, energetic muddle of a film that is badly overcooked by commercials director Fredrik Bond.November 25, 2013
LaBeouf, who throws himself whole-heartedly into every role regardless of its worth, is a fearless and fascinating actor, and his sincerity holds the entire sleazy mess together.October 31, 2014
The weird filmography of Shia LaBeouf, from Fury to Nymphomaniac via Transformers, continues with an ecstasy-fuelled excursion to eastern Europe in the bizarre The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman.