Charlie's War (2003)

7.5/10 115 min War Mystery

Overview

Charlie's War is the story of Charlotte Lewis, a woman who is experiencing serious emotional and mental turmoil brought about by nightmares of increasing intensity. In the dreams, she is a young girl, and she runs from unknown terrors. Trying to understand her troubling dreams, Charlotte revisits part of her childhood, which comes back to her in a series of impressionistic memories. Charlie, her sister, Jobie, and her mother move in with her grandmother. It is 1944, and World War II rages in Europe and the Far East. Though Grandma's farm seems to be a peaceful refuge, there is an undercurrent of fear and brooding menace in their surroundings.

Cast

Olympia Dukakis

Charlie

Lynn Redgrave

Grandma Lewis

Diane Ladd

Jobie

Hunter Hayes

Montgomery

Bobbie Eakes

Caroline Lewis

Peggy Walton-Walker

Gladys

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