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Creative Loafing (2013) - The truth about Charlie

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  • book review: The truth about Charlie
  • author(s): Matt Brunson
  • journal: Creative Loafing (21/Mar/2013)
  • issue: volume 27, issue 4, page 27
  • publisher: Creative Loafing, Inc
  • keywords: Motion pictures

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Abstract

Alfred Hitchcock's favorite among his own films, Shadow of a Doubt is an exemplary 1943 thriller in which a teenager (Teresa Wright) in complete adoration of her mild-mannered Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) is shocked to learn he's actually a serial killer. Stoker (***l/2 out of four), the first Englishlanguage film from heralded South Korean director Chan-wook Park (Oldboy) and the first script written by actor Wentworth Miller (TV's Prison Break), isn't a remake - not really. Yet considering the plot centers on the relationship between a teenage girl and her duplicitous Uncle Charlie, it's easy to imagine the spirit of Hitchcock was invoked before each day's shooting.