Goodbye Charlie

Name: Goodbye Charlie
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
Released: November 18, 1964
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 42

1964

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: November 18, 1964 | Approved

Summary: Womanizing Charlie is shot by an angry husband and falls into the sea. He arrives home after his memorial as a cute woman suffering from amnesia, and his old friend helps him/her.

Genre(s): Fantasy, Comedy, Romance

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 116 min

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Richard Brody

Vincente Minnelli directed two of the best movies ever made on the subject of Hollywood filmmaking—“The Bad and the Beautiful” and “Two Weeks in Another Town.” But he made a third, “Goodbye Charlie,” from 1964...which is, in a way, the most daring and original of them all. Read full review

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Even by delving into fantasy for its wildly implausible premise this picturization of George Axelrod's not-so-successful 1960 Broadway play doesn't come off as anything but the mildest type of entertainment. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Funny but far-fetched entertainment from director Minnelli, who doesn't need to rely on strange plot devices to make a good movie. Read full review

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Reynolds and Curtis (in a disposable role as Charlie's permanently aghast best pal) race at full speed through reams of dud dialogue, while Minnelli amuses himself colour coordinating costumes and set decorations. Based, very noticeably, on a stage play (by George Axelrod). Read full review

Mike Clark

Vincente Minnelli and Pat Boone didn't work together every day, which is only one of the factors here to titillate fanciers of oddball cinema. There's also a dreadful but thoroughly offbeat script (from George Axelrod's play) about a male screenwriter who's shot by a jealous husband, only to be reincarnated as a woman. [07 May 1999]

Bosley Crowther

George Axelrod's play, "Goodbye, Charlie," was bad enough on the stage. On the screen, it is a bleak conglomeration of outrageous whimsies and stupidities. Read full review

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