Just Charlie

2017

Action / Drama

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 78% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 1023 1K

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Plot summary

Football star Charlie has the world at her feet. With a top club desperate to sign her, her future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager sees only a nightmare. Raised as a boy, Charlie is torn between wanting to live up to her father's expectations and shedding this ill fitting skin.

Director

Rebekah Fortune Photo
Rebekah Fortune

Top cast

Patricia Potter Photo
Patricia Potter as Susan Lyndsay
Oliver Huntingdon Photo
Oliver Huntingdon as Alex
Ewan Mitchell Photo
Ewan Mitchell as Jason
John Draycott Photo
John Draycott as Mr. Treves
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 39 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Red-125 8 / 10

Charlie is a great football player. He's also a girl.

Just Charlie (2017) is an English film directed by Rebekah Fortune. Harry Gilby plays Charlie Lyndsay, a teenager who is a superior football (soccer) player at his school. He's so skilled that he's already being recruited by a major football team. Life is good, but it isn't.Charlie realizes that she is really a girl trapped in a boy's body. She's not gay, but rather has what is now called gender dsyphoria. This would be hard enough without football, but it's worse for Charlie because she really wants to play football, although she wants to play on the women's team.The complications of this situation--with parents, with friends, with coaches, and with the public--are predictable. A complication that's not mentioned in the film is that Charlie is a superb player on the boys' team. He will be unbeatable on a girl's team. Is this fair to the other girls--his teammates and the young women on the opposing teams?Harry Gilby, as Charlie, is an excellent actor. You can believe that his gender identity is female, and you can believe that he has the courage to openly address his situation, rather than conceal it. That's what makes the movie interesting and worth seeing.We saw this film at Rochester's excellent Little Theatre, as part of ImageOut, the superb LGBT Film Festival. It will work well on the small screen. The screening at ImageOut was the East Coast premiere of this movie. Hats off to the Programming Committee for bring this film to Rochester.
Reviewed by REVVINCENT 8 / 10

A formidable life challenge . . .

I first became familiar with Gilby while watching "Tolkien" where Gilby plays the young JRR Tolkien. To say that Gilby is stunningly good looking, even pretty, is putting it mildly. He also is quite charming.I opted to watch "Just Charlie" after seeing Gilby in "Tolkien". As a gay man who came out 52 years ago, I was curiouis. Not being fully familiar with the central them of "Just Charlie", I was at first surprised. At one point I considered simply not continuing to watch the movie. But, my inner voice said "give it a chance".Gilby's portrayal of a teen transsexual, MTF (male to female) is superbly acted / played. Our world continues to be challenged with the widening diversity of the human experience. Being "locked into" a body that is the wrong gender for that body must be extremely challenging and even threatening.Gilby gets five gold stars for his performance. I gave it eight.
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