Interview - Director Jon Poll (’Charlie Bartlett’)
HOLDEN ONTO A HERO
Talking with Charlie Bartlett director Jon Poll
By Robert Newton
“What attracted me to the movie after reading a hundred scripts,” says editor-turned-producer-turned-director Jon Poll, “is that the humor in it is so truth-based; what I love about it is that this odd bird makes choices that are not all perfect, but all come from a place of sincere honesty.”
In Charlie Bartlett, the 40-Year-Old Virgin producer’s first turn calling the shots as director, teen rebel Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) realizes that there is money in selling his behavioral medications to his classmates. Beyond the immediate reward of quick cash, he discovers that he genuinely enjoys helping people, setting up shop in a school bathroom and hearing the woes of the school’s troubled teens.
“We live in a world of a lot of cynical, clever, smart filmmaking – of films that are ‘Tarantinoesque,’ if you will,” he explains, “and here we […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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