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Charly
Produced by Lance Williams, Micah W. Merrill, Tip Boxell
Directed by Adam Anderegg
Screenplay by Janine Whetten-Gilbert
Production Company: Kaleidoscope Pictures
Premiere Date: September 2002
Length: 103 min.


Genre:		Film
Production Type:		Mormon Contributor(s)
Content Types:		Narrative Film Significant Mormon Elements
Distribution Types:		Commercial Theaters

Subjects: temple marriage; conversion;

Also Known As:
Jack Weyland's Charly (official title)

Summary:
Following the original story, the first half of this film depicts the romance between LDS Salt Lake native Sam and the eccentric non-LDS New Yorker Charlene (Charly). After her conversion and their marriage, the film's second half depicts their struggle with her terminal cancer.

Annotations:
See Mormon Film: Key Films of the Fifth Wave

This is an adaptation of the popular LDS novel, the second post-God's Army film adaptation from literature and the first from a fictional source. It is also Adam Anderegg's feature debut.

Quotes:
Real love stories have no endings.

Additional details at Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330136/

Additional details at ldsvideo.com
http://www.ldsvideo.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=688

View BYU Library catalog record
http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/ckey-search/3112517

HBLL Call No: DVDMM 149
Medium: 35mm color
Cast Members: Heather Beers - Charly Riley; Jeremy Elliott - Sam Roberts; Adam Johnson - Mark Reynolds; Randy King - Frank Roberts; Gary Neilson - Edward Riley; Lisa McCammon - Clair Riley; Jackie Winterrose-Fuller - Ena Riley; Bernie M. Diamond - Rafferty
Music Composed by: Aaron Merrill
Film Editor: Micah W. Merrill
Cinematographer: Bengt Jan Jonsson
Country: USA
Language: English
Certification: MPAA: PG
Distributor: Excel Entertainment

Adapted From :
Charly by Jack Weyland Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Company, 1980 (98p.)	Novel

Reviewed In:
What About Charly? by Thomas Baggaley
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Jack Weyland's Charly by Jeff Vice
'Charly' has fans crying over Beers by Eric D. Snider
Right time and place puts 'Charly' on silver screen by Eric D. Snider
[Review of] Charly by Josh Bell