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Title: Abysmally bad.
Review: The Truth About Charlie is a remake of 1963's Charade, starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. Charade isn't a masterpiece, but it's a fun lark of a movie, with the captivating chemistry of its two stars and a witty script by Peter Stone its main assets.Unfortunately, even if The Truth About Charlie weren't a remake of a well-remembered classic, it would still be a truly awful film. Apparently, the cinematographer forgot his tripod, cuz the camera shakes and quivers in his arms as he swirls around the two leads--Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton, who have zero chemistry and not a single witty line to deliver--making this flick the first movie in a long time that made me bolt the theater in revulsion.Save yourself the effort and just rent the original.
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