Charlie Harper Is a Millennial Romance With a Gen X Protagonist

Charlie is smart, well-read and completely unsure what he wants to do with his life. That kind of drifting protagonist has been a staple of American independent film for decades; but in Charlie Harper, the archetype sometimes feels like it belongs to an earlier generation. Adam looks at the movie's strong central performances, nonlinear memory structure and the missed opportunity to let its 2008 setting shape the relationship more deeply.