![]() ![]() The book tells you the outcome up front, but the film doesn’t, so I won’t say any more. That’s the first half of the movie, the happy half. ![]() They are destined to fall in love, of course - but she has a fiancé (Adam Johnson) back in New York, and her parents (Gary Neilson and Lisa McCammon) are fearful of her increasing interest in Sam and his Mormonism. ![]() She is set up with - foisted upon, perhaps - Sam Roberts (Jeremy Elliott), a strait-laced, humorless Mormon lad. Plenty of movies successfully depict characters’ entire lives and still occupy no more than a couple hours books usually need a few hundred pages to accomplish that.ĭirected with great competence and compassion by first-timer Adam Thomas Anderegg, the film version of the book (adapted by Janine Whetten Gilbert) is true to Weyland’s story while expanding and improving it.Ĭharlene “Charly” Riley (Heather Beers) is a fun-loving girl visiting family in Salt Lake City. Its potential as a movie, then, was considerable: Films are better equipped than books to squeeze a lot of information into a short space. Characters behave irrationally and change suddenly, all in the apparent interest of getting the whole thing over with in less time than most books choose to allot themselves. ![]() It attempts to compress a lengthy story spanning several years into 100 pages, rushing through every conflict like a videotape on fast-forward. Though it is probably the most popular Latter-day Saint teen romance novel of all time, Jack Weyland’s “Charly” is nonetheless a very bad book. ![]()
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