Charlie Bartlett (played by Anton Yelchin) is the hero a sweetly odd film about a high school student with, it seems, a real calling as a shrink... or maybe as a drug pusher? Robert Downy Jr. as his unhappy Principal with a daughter.
The Tale of Despereaux is the animated quest of a brave mouse and a down on his luck rat - with a who's who of name actors doing vocals. A good story and the first G rated movie I've seen in a while. Luckily little kids don't fully understand the threaten-the-princess-with-eating-alive-by-rats thing, huh? Or the death-in-Colosseum-by-cat thing either. I liked the soup theme.
Image borrowed from Thany's Thoughts Blog, which has a good comparison of book to film
Something's Gotta Give with great performances by beautifully ripe Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson. (Who knew Keanu Reeves could be so charming?)
And on TV: watching the new season of Castle (the first ep is startlingly serious) and waiting on Bones (having finally caught up).
Conclusions? All of these were, in their separate ways, worth watching. Strange to say, but no duds in this bunch.
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