![]() ![]() 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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