Charlie Countryman
After the death of his mother, Charlie dreams about her telling him to lead a journey across the Atlantic to Bucharest. A fellow passenger, Gabi a beautiful musician caught his eye and took Charlie’s heart.However, little did he know that a barbaric gangster was in love with Gabi and intended of never letting her go. To save the love of his life Charlie is caught up in phantasm, impregnated with romance and ferocity a Romanian underworld.
14 August 1952, Bucharest, Romania
26 June 1984, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
22 January 1940, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
11 September 1981, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
30 June 1959, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
12 April 1974, Bucharest, Romania
15 August 1939, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
19 December 1963, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
9 March 1942, Bucharest, Romania
24 August 1988, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK
24 October 1989, Rezina, Moldavian SSR, USSR [now Moldova]
15 September 1963, Constanta, Romania
7 September 1987, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
1 August 1982, England, UK
10 May 1949, Bucuresti, Romania
18 July 1968, Bucharest, Romania
14 September 1960, New York City, New York, USA
October 31, 2014
The weird filmography of Shia LaBeouf, from Fury to Nymphomaniac via Transformers, continues with an ecstasy-fuelled excursion to eastern Europe in the bizarre The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman.October 31, 2014
This is a weird and self-indulgent affair that is easy to mock but that, just occasionally, captures the romantic feel of the equally pretentious but magical Leos Carax films of the late 1980s.October 31, 2014
An eccentric, energetic muddle of a film that is badly overcooked by commercials director Fredrik Bond.November 19, 2014
A wildly unauthentic offering, that manages to take such raw, human emotions, and produce a picture that revels, frustratingly, in frivolity and irreverence.November 15, 2013
It's a thoroughly queasy pastiche of magic-realism/coming-of-age/romantic-thriller/bloody-Chiclets nonsense (and when I say "nonsense" I am substituting a much stronger word).August 26, 2015
Ultimately, Charlie Countryman bites off more than it can chew and winds up feeling more absurd than memorable.November 15, 2013
This catastrophe of a movie zigzags drunkenly between action-adventure and surreal comedy with some magical realism slopped over it like ketchup.November 15, 2013
Ah, Bucharest. That exotic, Eastern European hotbed of romance, intrigue and hefty film-production tax breaks.November 03, 2014
As for Shia, he's wildly self-indulgent and narcissistic: all puppy eyes, emoting and angsting like there's no tomorrow. He just doesn't know when eneouf is eneouf.November 15, 2013
However you cut it, with all that talent, Charlie Countryman feels like a sad, wasted opportunity.November 15, 2013
Even though you learn that Charlie is absolute aces at running from bad guys, the character pretty much remains a confusing, empty vessel. As does the movie.November 25, 2013
LaBeouf, who throws himself whole-heartedly into every role regardless of its worth, is a fearless and fascinating actor, and his sincerity holds the entire sleazy mess together.