Rotten
Preachy and humorless, Eban and Charley shocks only by the quality of its numbing solipsism.
Ed Park, Village Voice
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Eban and Charley
Overview
29-year-old Eban has retreated home to his parent's house in Seaside Oregon after the dissolution of his teaching job in Seattle. There he courts 15-year-old Charlie and eventually the two start a sexual relationship. As the age of consent in Oregon is 18 years and given the age difference, the adults in this drama take a dim view of this development.
Director and cast
- James Bolton Director
- Brent Fellows as Eban
- Gio Black Peter as Charley (as Giovanni Andrade)
- Ellie Nicholson as Sunshine
- Drew Zeller as Kevin
- Pam Munter as Eban's Mother
- Ron Upton as Eban's Father
- Nolan Chard as Charley's Father (as Nolan V. Chard)
- Deanna Alexich as Girlfriend
- Kali as Coffee Girl
- Greg McMickle as Cab Driver
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
33%
Tomatometer
Rotten
There's not enough judgment being rendered by the filmmaker, who seems happy enough to portray his movie's relationship sympathetically because, after all, these things happen.
John Anderson, Newsday
Rotten
Might best be described as preaching to a sparse congregation, or else Mr. Bolton is simply out to bore people into submission.
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times
Fresh
Bolton could easily have exploited the film's unsettling issues, but he takes a nonsensationalized approach that leaves viewers to decide the moral questions for themselves.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
Few people will be able to go along with Bolton's point of view regarding relationships between adults and underage youths, but there's no denying the writer-director, in his feature debut, has avoided sensationalism in telling this story.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
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