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Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter [Opens Nov. 18 in theaters and available on various VOD platforms.] Rebecca Halpern's engaging, intriguing, candid, insightful, behind-the-scenes, 97-minute, 2021 documentary that chronicles the career rise and fall of talented, perfectionist, passionate, ambitious, driven, innovative, insensitive, famous culinary genius Chef Charlie Trotter who opened his highly acclaimed restaurant Charlie Trotter's in Chicago and died way too soon of a stroke in 2013 at age 54 and consists of archival photographs and film footage and interviews snippets with restaurateurs (such as friend Emeril Lagasse, Gordon Sinclair, friend Carrie Nahabedian, and Alice Waters), first wife Lisa Ehrlich, journalist Mark Caro, former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, former executive sous chef David Lefevre, farmer Lee Jones, sommelier Larry Stone, pastry chef Michelle Gayer, mother Dona-Lee Trotter, best Trotter customer Ray Harris, sister Anne Trotter Hinkamp, and chefs Reginald Watkins, Norman Van Aken, Wolfgang Puck, Della Gossett, Art Smith, Rick Bayless, and Grant Achatz.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  NR View Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter on the Internet Movie Database