The Truth About Charlie

A 2002 remake of the 1963 film, Charade, directed by Jonathan Demme. Starring Thandie Newton as Regina "Reggie" Lambert, Mark Wahlberg and Tim Robbins.


 * Affably Evil:  Regina even calls   "sweet".
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: done twice by
 * Darker and Edgier: initially played straight with gritty scenes of Paris, then subverted with
 * Designated Girl Fight:
 * Dirty Coward: Charlie through and through -
 * Equal Opportunity Evil
 * Evil Matriarch: Charles's mother blames Regina for
 * Five-Bad Band:
 * Big Bad:
 * The Dragon and Dark Chick: Lola
 * Evil Genius:
 * The Brute: Emil "Zad" Zadapec
 * Minion with an F In Evil:
 * Friends with Benefits: Commandant Dominique and her (male) partner.
 * Gender Flip:
 * Lola is the Distaff Counterpart of the the character played by George Kennedy in the original.
 * Commandant Dominique is played by Christine Boisson; in the original by Jacques Marin as Insp. Edouard Grandpierre
 * Girl-On-Girl Is Hot: the tango scene between Lola, the female member of the Five-Bad Band; Regina; and Jeanne, the female Commandant Inspector.
 * Hero Antagonist:
 * Inspector Javert: Commandant Dominique, a rare female example.
 * Les Yay: Regina and Lola; Regina and Commandant Inspector Jeanne Dominique.
 * Magical Realism: Charles Aznavour shows up to sing to the lovers once while a recording of his is playing, and at the end of the film. How this happens is never explained.
 * Mexican Standoff: between
 * Mood Whiplash: between the claustrophobic and paranoid feeling one gets while Regina is walking through Paris, and things like Charles Aznavour showing up, and, the film can't figure out if it's a dark comedy or a straight thriller.
 * One-Woman Wail: on the soundtrack during the Mexican Standoff.
 * Race Lift:
 * Reggie is played by Thandie Newton; in the original, she was played by Audrey Hepburn.
 * Il-Sang Lee (played by Joong-Hoon Park) is the Asian counterpart of the James Coburn character in the original film.
 * Lisa Gay Hamilton's Lola has a Race Lift and a Gender Flip (originally played by George Kennedy).
 * Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves:
 * Scenery Porn: No matter how gritty the streets, it's still Paris!
 * Trailers Always Lie: where to begin?
 * The trailer makes it look like more of a straightforward Thriller, and leaves out all the Magical Realism.
 * Ted Levine's line in the trailer "Has he laid his tango routine on you?" gets changed to "Aznavour routine" in the film.
 * Lola ; but not in the movie.
 * Lola ; but not in the movie.