Charlie Bartlett

After a bright, entrepreneurial, charming, wealthy teenager (Anton Yelchin) gets expelled from a Connecticut prep school to the surprise of his clueless mother (Hope Davis) and is enrolled in a public school in this well-paced, entertaining, coming-of-age comedy, he immediately tries to change his popularity and to fit in by playing psychiatrist and illegally dispensing drugs and by making friends with the well-liked daughter (Kat Dennings) of the straitlaced principal (Robert Downey, Jr.), the school bully (Tyler Hilton), and a depressed, geeky student (Mark Rendall).
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