Life is for living
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Zac Efron, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew, Augustus Prew, Donal Logue, Kim Basinger, Ray Liotta |
| Director |
Burr Steers |
| Screenplay | Craig Pearce, Lewis Colick, from the novel by Ben Sherwood |
| Music | Rolfe Kent |
| Cinematography | Enrique Chediak |
| Editing | Padriac McKinley |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Made in | 2010 |
| Produced by | Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Marc Platt Productions, Charlie Film Productions |
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| Genre | Drama, romance |
| Language | Mild to moderate, ocasional, in context. Overall effect is mild |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | Brief scene of kissing and discreetly implied sex, low impact. |
| Violence | Mild violence, occasional, mild accidental blood |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | Brief infrequent alcohol consumption in context |
| Comments | None |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith  It's all so maudlin and melodramatic ... and boring | 5 |  |
| Die Burger Laetitia Pople Voorprent is ál wat jy van tranedal moet sien | 5 | |
| Cape Times Kirk Honeycutt Cloud and heavy weather | 1 | |
| Box Office Vadim Rizov Zac Efron finds love, ghosts and half-success in goopy but understated romance | 8 |  |
| eye Weekly Rob Duffy After 98 painful minutes, one is left pining for Efron’s carefree high-school days. Perhaps his agent feels the same way. | 1 | |
| ScreenIt T. Durgin The story made me feel and reminded me of some of the losses I've suffered in my life. | 12 |  |
| Metacritic.com 30 critics | 7 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 116 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Zac Efron gives it his all, but Charlie St. Cloud is too shallow and cloying to offer much more than eye candy for his fans. | 6 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 1976 Netizens The epitome of a Lifetime movie | 10 | |
Average .. 32% | 6 | |