Shia LaBeouf takes a lot of crap for being a caustic celebrity with artistic ambitions. With Charlie Countryman, he gives the haters a reason to lay off.
The feature debut of commercial director Fredrik Bond, Charlie Countryman is an ethereal neo-noir set in Bucharest, a city that stands in for Wonderland. After his mother's death, Charlie (LaBeouf) is visited by her ghost who urges him to travel to Romania. The reasons are unknown, but there's no arguing with Ghost Mom (Melissa Leo, who gives a brief but sensitive performance) -- Charlie's devotion to her sends him across the Atlantic to stumble into the fate his mother predicted.
Charlie Countryman is like LaBeouf's After Hours, the story of an everyman thrust into an unfamiliar world both entrancing and terrifying. After years of banal Transformers movies and barely-sensical Twitter rants, it's easy to forget that LaBeouf has that naivete in him. But it's revived, LaBeouf channeling a young Tom Hanks as he wanders the streets of Bucharest.
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