![]() ![]() ![]() Needless to say, her parents are horrified, as is her fianc back in New York. (He, of course, has already gone ga-ga for this female whirlwind.) So much so that she decides to investigate his church and even winds up falling for him. ![]() It turns out that non-member Charly is intrigued by Sam's beliefs. Their brief "date" winds up lasting longer than one evening. Her reluctant tour guide is Sam Robertson (Jeremy Elliott), a squeaky-clean, LDS computer-science major. The title character is Charlene Riley (Heather Beers), a free-spirited New York art student who's back in her hometown of Salt Lake City for a visit. However, those who weren't as taken by the novel - which has been described, and not unfairly, as the LDS equivalent of Erich Segal's "Love Story" - will probably find it a little too manipulative, even maudlin. If, on one hand, they were swept up by the best-selling novel's quaint and old-fashioned romance and touched by its ultimate message (the timelessness of love), this fairly faithful adaptation - in spirit, if not actual content - will probably enchant. How movie patrons respond to the feature film version of "Jack Weyland's Charly" may depend on their feelings about the printed-page version of the story. ![]()
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