Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
Directed by Burr Steers
Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. After high school classmate Tess returns home unexpectedly, Charlie grows torn between honoring a promise he made four years earlier and moving forward with newfound love. As he finds the courage to let go of the past for good, Charlie discovers the soul most worth saving is his own.
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What critics compared Charlie St. Cloud to
The movie tries to combine “The Sixth Sense” and “Ghost” to reflect on the painful gulf between life and death, while also hinting at our ability to retain something from those we've lost.
All right, there are lots of precedents for this kind of narrative model starting with Ghost (1990), and Anthony Minghella's Truly, Madly, Deeply, released the same year.
It’s possible that Zac Efron’s legion of young, female admirers will embrace their idol in this lachrymose supernatural melodrama, a wannabe cross between Ghost and The Sixth Sense .
Director Burr Steers, who helmed (no pun intended) Efron in the charming body-switch comedy 17 Again, shrouds the film with a guilt-edged melancholy that evokes the atmosphere of Ghost and The Sixth Sense.
But he's not given much of a chance to demonstrate more than a piercing gaze and some of the best crying since Demi Moore in "Ghost."
Efron is clearly talented, and he can shed a single tear on cue in the same uncanny manner Demi Moore did in Ghost.