Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Zac Efron | ... | Charlie St. Cloud | |
Charlie Tahan | ... | Sam St. Cloud | |
Amanda Crew | ... | Tess Carroll | |
Augustus Prew | ... | Alistair Woolley | |
Donal Logue | ... | Tink Weatherbee | |
Kim Basinger | ... | Claire St. Cloud | |
Ray Liotta | ... | Florio Ferrente | |
Dave Franco | ... | Sully | |
Matt Ward | ... | Connors | |
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Miles Chalmers | ... | Latham |
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Jesse Wheeler | ... | Greene Student |
Desiree Zurowski | ... | Carla Ferrente | |
Adrian Hough | ... | Ben Carroll | |
Jill Teed | ... | Grace Carroll | |
Valerie Tian | ... | Girl in Toy Store |
Fatherless golden high school boy Charlie St. Cloud had a golden future, handsome, popular and admitted to Stanford on a scholarship, even recruited for a prestigious yacht sailing team. But shortly after graduating, Charlie feels existentially guilty about the death of his doting, beloved kid brother Sam whom he was driving to a playmate when a crashing car killed the junior. Charlie pledges to continue the baseball practice he promised to continue until entering Stanford, which he now ditches fro a menial job as graveyard keeper, while their mother shamelessly moved out of state, and tends to the grave of his Vietnam-killed former school buddy Sully, the second ghost who binds his sole to their beach home town. He's finally tempted to start living his own life again when he meets a female sailor his age about to embark on a transatlantic voyage and spends a ho night, but still can't 'leave Sam'. Only when he hears the authorities give up searching for her, having gone missing at sea... Written by KGF Vissers
This film is about a young man who loses his younger brother to a traffic accident. He remains locked in a state of grief until he rekindles with his friend from high school.
"Charlie St. Cloud" is beautifully filmed, with great artistic scenes and amazing sceneries. Cinematography is great, and many scenes are so beautiful that they could become postcards. However, the story is not as good, it is not very engaging. I find the plot unconvincing and the story telling is rather poor. The romance Charlie and the girl develops is unconvincing and contrived, and the emotional burden and guilt of Charlie could have been explored further.