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Charly by Jack Weyland5/19/2023 ![]() Charly's past-with the pesky ex who won't go away-drives a not-so-suspenseful wedge between the lovers. Sam is a Spiritual Man who teaches Charly to believe (as he does, in the "happily ever after" of faith). Charly is a Free Spirit who teaches Sam to laugh. ![]() Jack Weyland's Charly at long last gives the 1980 Latter Day Saints paperback romance weepie its big-screen due.Ĭharly tells the love story of strait-laced Mormon Sam Roberts (Jeremy Elliott) and New York intellectual Charly Riley (Heather Beers). Brigham City, for example, adopted the conventions of a serial-killer thriller. To qualify as Mormon cinema, seemingly, also means masking a recruitment film in a genre cloak. ![]() It would be a mistake to lump all Mormon movie product into the same bargain bin, though limited production value can result in a pervading flatness. In the last few years, Mormon films have begun squeezing into multiplexes for blink-and-you-miss-'em runs backed by grass-roots promotion and direct-marketed preaching to the converted. The best kept secret of modern American movies is Mormon cinema. ![]()
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