Charlie St. Cloud (film)
- Zac Efron: Charlie St. Cloud
- Charlie Tahan: Sam St. Cloud
- Amanda Crew: Tess Carroll
- Kim Basinger: Claire St. Cloud
- Ray Liotta: Florio Ferrente
- Donal Logue: Tink Weatherbee
- Augustus Prew: Alistair Wooley
Miraculously ( Original title: Charlie St. Cloud ) is an American drama and film adaptation of Ben Sherwood's best-seller, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud with Zac Efron in the lead role. Directed by Burr Steers. Theatrical release in the U.S. was 30 July 2010 and in Germany on October 7, 2010.
Action
Charlie, a young sailor from Washington, and his younger brother Sam are best friends. When they win together a sailing competition, Charlie receives a scholarship at Stanford University. Charlie cares like a father to his younger brother, the father has left them. Charlie promises Sam to practice baseball with him every day until he goes to Stanford. Charlie is persuaded to go to a party because his friends go to the military academy soon. When Charlie and Sam keep on the way to celebrate at a traffic light, they got into a tragic car accident. Charlie can be revived, but Sam succumbs to his injuries. At the funeral, Charlie is on to see his brother. When he leaves the funeral prematurely, he meets in the forest on his brother. Charlie feels obliged to comply with the promise and trained every day since then with the spirit of his brother's baseball.
Five years pass, and Charlie still has not gone to Stanford. Instead, he works and lives, distanced themselves from the outside world, to the cemetery where Sam is buried. He was no longer sailing since the death of his brother. Still coached Charlie with the spirit of his brother, and one day he is invited by his colleagues and only friend on the celebration. During the ceremony, he learns the young sailor Tess know, who tells him that she will soon sail around the world and on the same evening wants to test their boat. When they get out moves to the sea, they sailed straight into a storm. Charlie finds the next morning asleep and slightly wounded in the cemetery. She tells him that she was caught in the storm the day before. He takes her to his home and fed their wounds. Then he invites her to dinner. They spend the night together and love each other.
When Charlie breaks up to meet his brother, Tess follows him. She wants to bring Charlie to let go of his brother, but Charlie decides to stay with Sam.
The next morning, Charlie learns that Tess is reported as missing for two days she was not returned after the test sail, and Charlie realizes that he has spent the last day with the spirit of Tess. He decides to do with his friend and the coach of Tess on the search for her. After hours of searching, he has to choose. Does he continue to look for Tess or he returns to his brother to his promise. He decides to continue to Tess to seek and thus lets his brother go.
When they finally find the boat of Tess Charlie jumps into the icy water and seek your. He swims to the nearby island and finds the half-frozen Tess.
Charlie and Tess go a while later in the woods, to say goodbye to final of his brother. Sam's spirit appears, but Charlie can not see him. He tells him that he understands that Charlie can not take care of him forever. In parting, Charlie says: "We will always be brothers."
Then Tess and Charlie jointly decide to sail around the world.
Broadcast
The film had on October 14, 2012 premiere on German television on RTL 2
Music
The title song is called Run, sung and written by Snow Patrol.
Criticism
" In his debut, Igby Goes Down ' threw Burr Steers a bizarre and unsentimental look at growing up, cruising in his third directorial effort, but in the wake of Nicholas Sparks, the happiness, suffering and romantic longing tied to many hits. The main difference to Sparks is the central bond, which is not a romantic, but a family, and the supernatural aspect, the extended life beyond death here. "