Being Charlie Page #7

Synopsis: Charlie is a troublesome 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he's given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab. There, he meets a beautiful but troubled girl, Eva, and is forced to battle with drugs, elusive love and divided parents.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Rob Reiner
Production: Castle Rock Entertainment
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
24%
R
Year:
2015
97 min
$11,872
517 Views


You've had plenty

of f***ing choices, Charlie!

Yeah, rehab or jail.

You know,

quite a wide selection there.

You're really going to do this?

- Was... was that Charlie?

- Uh-huh.

- Well, where's he going?

- I don't know.

What do you mean you don't know?

I don't know.

He didn't tell me.

He just stole the car

and took off. Same old sh*t.

Hey, it's Eva.

Leave me a message.

- Hello.

- Eva?

No. Who the f*** is this?

Where'd you get this phone?

- Some girl sold it to me.

- Where?

Hey, I bought it

fair and square.

Where the f***

did she sell it to you?

- Venice.

- Where in venice?

I don't know.

Somewhere on the boardwalk.

No, I don't want him arrested.

Just...

just keep an eye on him.

'Cause if anything does happen,

obviously we need

to know about it, right?

Eva.

Eva.

Hey. Hey, don't run away.

Come on. Give me a second. Eva!

- Eva!

- What?!

Just look at me, all right?

Just give me a f***ing minute,

all right?

Listen, you don't think I know

what you're going through?

I've ditched

a thousand of these places.

It's different.

Yeah, it's f***ing different.

I love you.

Really?

So... so, what?

Then it's... it's us

against the world?

I get lost in you,

and you get lost in me,

and we live happily ever after?

I can't outrun this.

Come home with me.

Now, with a political campaign

of this magnitude,

it's got to take some toll

on your family.

Well, I'm glad

you asked that question, Eddie.

We wouldn't be doing this

if we didn't think we could make

a significant impact

on our education system

and ultimately on the health

of our sagging economy.

So can I ask

how your son's holding up?

- He...

- it's not that easy for him.

He's had a hard time.

We spoke to him

early this morning,

and he's doing just fine.

All right, thank you so much

for joining us today.

- Thank you.

- All right, you're watching

our exclusive interview

with David and liseanne mills

just two weeks away

from California's

gubernatorial election.

For fox 11 news,

I'm Edward Barnes.

Back to you, guys.

All right, we're clear.

They found liseanne's s.U.V.

At the Malibu house,

but no Charlie.

Okay.

I mean, what do you

want me to do, huh?!

Personally search

every crack house

and meth lab in the city?

Every counselor, every therapist

- told us the same thing!

- Mm-hmm.

Be strong!

Hold the boundaries!

- Yes.

- That's what they told us!

They also tell you

to lie to your son?

Did they do that?

We've been

through all that already.

No, he came a thousand miles

with nothing,

- and we turned him away!

- That's right.

Yes, and you lied to him,

and you lied to me!

- Oh, yeah?

- Yes! Yes!

What do you call

going behind my back

and giving him

an overnight pass?!

- What do you call that?!

- I love him.

- Oh, and I don't love him!

- I don't know!

He's our son!

Of course I f***ing love him!

One of us had to keep him safe.

For him, or for you?

I'm trying to sleep, Jean Luc.

Hey, you awake?

Hey, you got

enough to cut tonight?

I don't know.

It's kinda late, dude.

I know a guy

who's got some real fire.

- - I'm down.

Estamos aqu.

Take the money.

F***ing get the money.

Hello.

Charlie?

Is that you?

Talk to me, please.

Adam!

- Come on!

Hey, man.

What the f*** happened to you?

Can I stay here?

F***.

Forget it, man.

She's a b*tch.

- She's not a b*tch.

- She is a b*tch.

She is a weak-willed b*tch

that you left you hanging

with your dick in your hand.

- You're better than that.

- Oh, yeah.

I'm way better.

I'm strung out,

got no money

and a f***ed-up face.

Why is the glass always

half-f***ing-shattered with you?

Hmm?

F***.

Look, you can stay here with me

as long as you want, all right?

We'll hit some parties,

meet some ladies.

You can do whatever you want.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, just no heroin.

Think you can handle that?

You bet.

And you got to cut

this sad sack-of-sh*t routine.

It is just total

p*ssy repellent.

Not to mention you smell

like a fat person's ass

that's been wandering

around Disneyland all day.

- I'll take a shower.

- Please.

For the sake of mankind.

It is...

- Yeah, yeah.

- Really pungent.

Oh, god.

Hey, remember,

tomorrow's a new day.

Oh, you think of that

all by yourself?

Yo, hey.

I'm gonna f*** her.

- Eh?

- Lucky girl.

Whoa, whoa!

Devon, get over here!

Come on.

This is my boy Charlie.

He just got out of rehab.

- He's a bad boy.

- Oh, really?

- Oh, yeah.

- Yeah. Yeah.

I'm absolutely terrible.

So what program are you in?

None of 'em.

So you're ucla?

No.

So where do you go to school?

You really care?

No.

Has he been with Adam

the whole time?

No. He's been to a couple

different homeless shelters,

then the streets.

Should we bring him in?

No.

Just keep an eye on him.

Suck it down, b*tch.

Drink it.

- Did you drink the whole thing?

- Ohh!

- Party!

- Ohh!

F***!

Oh, suck it!

- Oh, my god!

- What?!

- Oh, my...

oh, I want to feel

a little of that.

That's it.

That's all right there.

You were on fire tonight, baby.

Oh, man.

Yo, this could have been us

the whole f***ing time.

- I know.

- Yeah.

Hey, come here.

Bring it in.

Oh.

- F***ing love you, man.

- Love you, too, man.

I love you, though.

I love you.

- I love you, man.

- You being honest?

- Yeah, mostly.

- You feel it, really?

I love most things about you.

Don't have to get into it.

That was tight.

I'm gonna make

the star of David.

- Really?

- Yeah. It's my heritage.

Just let me do it.

F*** it.

Hey, what was the name

of that...

- that ugly chick?

- Um...

Stacey Chapman?

No, no, the other one.

F***, what's her name?

You know, she had the big nose

and the really close-set eyes.

She looked kind

of like Paul giamatti.

- Jenny henson.

- Yes! Paul...

- yes! Yes!

F***ing Paul giamatti.

- Jenny "Paul giamatti" henson.

- Giamatti henson.

Oh, my god.

You know, she was the one

that ratted us out

when we released

those mice

from the science room.

You still holding on

to that sh*t?

F***, yeah,

I'm still holding on to that.

You gotta let go of that, man.

Yeah, easy for you to say.

You never f***ing got caught.

I never dodged

a single f***ing bullet.

Yeah, well, sometimes

you dodge one, you just...

you move in front of another.

You never f***ing know.

Yeah, like you ever got hit.

Really?

Yeah.

You kidding me, dude?

You're f***ing teflon.

You do whatever you want.

You never get

a f***ing scratch on you.

Yeah, yeah, that's me.

I'm un-f***ing-scathed.

- Yeah.

- That's what you think?

- That's what I know.

- Really?

You kidding me?

That night at Jackson's.

Perfect. Let's talk

about the night at Jackson's.

Let's talk about it.

All right, so...

We all took the same sh*t.

Jackson o.D.'D,

I got shipped off to wilderness,

and you, you went back

to school the next day.

Am I missing something?

Well, it just as easily could

have gone to sh*t for me, too.

But it didn't.

That's the point.

Two very large men

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