Synopsis

Among the classic high-school rebels of American movies, there have been truants, delinquents, pranksters and con artists – but there has never been anyone quite like Charlie Bartlett. An optimist, a truth-teller and a fearless schemer, when Charlie slyly positions himse as his new school's resident "psychiatrist," dishing out both honest advice and powerful presiptions, he has no idea the ways in which he will transform his classmates, the school principal and the potential of his own life.