Charlie St. Cloud in high school has it all, good student, good athlete, sailing champ, and set to attend Stanford in the fall. But all that changes with an automobile accident, one from which we wonder if Charlie will ever recover.
Zac Efron is Charlie St. Cloud and does a very fine job in a dramatic role. There was a karaoke scene, and I wondered if he would sing, but he didn't.
I like the movie, but it does require some extra patience during its middle, which is mostly gloomy and a bit protracted at times. But the final scenes come together and make the movie overall a good one.
Charlie Tahan is his younger brother, Sam St. Cloud, a die-hard baseball fan and a Red Sox fan. Amanda Crew is classmate and sailor, Tess Carroll. Kim Basinger is Charlie's mom, Claire St. Cloud.
SPOILERS: At night Charlie is driving his brother to a friend's house and makes a cardinal error while waiting to turn left. He turns his front wheels while stationary, and is hit from behind, pushing the car into oncoming traffic, he is injured but his little brother dies. Five years later Charlie has not gone to Stanford, and works at the cemetery. He also "meets" his brother every day in a clearing at sundown cannon, to practice baseball as he promised the day of the accident. But Charlie actually sees his brother and talks to him. It is part of his having died for 2 minutes from the accident and now he has certain powers to communicate with the dead, or the near dead. This comes in handy when Tess, who has become his girlfriend, goes missing and presumed dead in Puget Sound. But Charlie can sense where she is and leads a rescue of her, finally forgives himself for the death of his brother, and gets on with life.
Zac Efron is Charlie St. Cloud and does a very fine job in a dramatic role. There was a karaoke scene, and I wondered if he would sing, but he didn't.
I like the movie, but it does require some extra patience during its middle, which is mostly gloomy and a bit protracted at times. But the final scenes come together and make the movie overall a good one.
Charlie Tahan is his younger brother, Sam St. Cloud, a die-hard baseball fan and a Red Sox fan. Amanda Crew is classmate and sailor, Tess Carroll. Kim Basinger is Charlie's mom, Claire St. Cloud.
SPOILERS: At night Charlie is driving his brother to a friend's house and makes a cardinal error while waiting to turn left. He turns his front wheels while stationary, and is hit from behind, pushing the car into oncoming traffic, he is injured but his little brother dies. Five years later Charlie has not gone to Stanford, and works at the cemetery. He also "meets" his brother every day in a clearing at sundown cannon, to practice baseball as he promised the day of the accident. But Charlie actually sees his brother and talks to him. It is part of his having died for 2 minutes from the accident and now he has certain powers to communicate with the dead, or the near dead. This comes in handy when Tess, who has become his girlfriend, goes missing and presumed dead in Puget Sound. But Charlie can sense where she is and leads a rescue of her, finally forgives himself for the death of his brother, and gets on with life.