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The Education of Charlie Banks (2008)

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Movie Info


Genre

Drama

Release Date

TBA 2008

Duration

100 min.

Production Budget

$5 millions

Studio

Anchor Bay Entertainment

Official Site

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Cast and Crew


Director

Fred Durst

Producer

Marisa Polvino

Screenwriter

Peter Elkoff

Starring

  • Jesse Eisenberg
  • Jason Ritter as Mick
  • Eva Amurri
  • Christopher Marquette
  • Sebastian Stan
  • Gloria Votsis
  • Alex Guarino
  • Jason Anthony
  • Declan Baldwin

Movie Story


The SEVENTIES: When New York was still the greatest, dirtiest, most conflicted city in the world.

At 16, socially responsible upper west-sider CHARLIE BANKS (Jesse Eisenberg) witnesses charismatic blue collar sociopath MICK LEARY (Jason Ritter), 18, brutally beat two unwitting suburban jocks at a high school party. Mick's a west village neighborhood buddy of Charlie's best friend but Charlie's conscience gets the better of him. Telling only his parents, he reports Mick to the police.

Three years later, during his freshman year in college, Mick shows up for a visit. Does Mick know he was the one who ratted him out?

Mick's visit stretches past the weekend and Mick and Charlie begin a game of cat and mouse. Nice one moment, and threatening the next, Mick keeps Charlie guessing. But Mick also begins a strange course of assimilation, donning borrowed cashmere from and reading Charlie's books and auditing his classes. Soon Charlie begins to wonder if the intellectual caress of higher education can redeem even someone seemingly as far gone as Mick...

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