Matt St. Peter 10/5/08 Screenwriting Charlie Bartlett Charlie Bartlett is a movie that went under the radar of many people in February of 2008. Before I told anyone about it, I was the only person I knew that had seen it and only a few people I knew had heard about it. The movie didn’t even make 3 million dollars in the domestic box office. Charlie Bartlett is not an amazing movie. It doesn’t have the greatest script or a plot that keeps you on the edge of your seat. It is a movie that reaches out to a certain age group and empathizes with them. Charlie Bartlett is about a kid, Charlie (played by Anton Yelchin), who has been kicked out of multiple private schools for doing certain antics such as making other students fake id’s. He doesn’t want anything else than to be popular. So when his not-quite-all-there mother (played by Hope Davis) has no choice but to enlist him in public school, he gets the crap kicked out of him on the first day. Charlie then devises a way to start making friends and to start helping the troubled students of the High School. He sets up a counseling office in the boys’ bathroom and dispenses medications, which he gets from the multiple psychiatrists his mom has on call, to students for depression, anxiety, and ADHD among other things. Doing this leads to Charlie becoming more popular than he could have ever imagined. The scene stealer for the movie would have to be Principal Gardner (played by Robert Downey Jr.) He is a single parent who drinks a lot to cope with the stresses of his job and being a parent. He is constantly reminded by his daughter, who is also the love affection of Charlie, that she liked him a lot more as a teacher than as a principle. His reply to the comment is “that makes two of us”. He is constantly trying to do his job and implement rules but still be the cool guy he once was as a teacher. This all changes when Charlie is becoming exactly what he wanted, the most popular kid in school, leading to Principal...