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''Charlie Countryman'' (originally known as ''The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman'') is a 2013 American-Romanian psychological romantic comedy-drama film directed by Fredrik Bond in his directorial debut, written by Matt Drake, and starring Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger, Rupert Grint and Aubrey Plaza. The film premiered on January 21, 2013 at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was screened in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. The film was released November 15, 2013 in the United States〔http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=65620〕 was released on October 31, 2014 in the United Kingdom.〔http://www.filmdates.co.uk/films/5610-the-necessary-death-of-charlie-countryman〕 ==Plot== Charlie Countryman (Shia LaBeouf) is a normal guy living in Chicago. When his mother, Kate (Melissa Leo), dies, he sees her as a spirit. When he asks her what do to with his life, she tells him to go to Bucharest for adventure. On the flight, he meets Victor (Ion Caramitru), an elderly man returning home from a Cubbies game, with a hat as a gift for his daughter. Victor dies sitting next to Charlie, who later sees him as a spirit asking him to deliver his gift to his daughter, which he accepts. Arriving at the airport, he meets Victor's daughter, Gabi (Evan Rachel Wood), whom he falls instantly in love with. After he gives her Victor's gift, they part. While Charlie is riding in a taxi, he finds Gabi in her car on the side of the road. She tells him she can't keep up with the ambulance containing her father's body, and he offers to help catch up to them. They talk, with Gabi saying she plays the cello for the Bucharest Opera House. They suddenly cause the ambulance truck to crash and flip over, with Victor's body flying out of it. Gabi leaves the area in another truck, leaving her car with Charlie. He takes the car to the opera house, not before finding a revolver in her bag. He takes her belongings to the opera house and watches a performance with Gabi in it. Later on, Gabi finds her unstable and chaotic ex-husband, Nigel (Mads Mikkelsen), in a locker room. While they are talking, Gabi spots Charlie walking by; and Nigel questions him, causing Gabi to say that Charlie is a tuba player and is "homosexual". Gabi forces Nigel to leave, and he does so. Gabi then tells Charlie to go to a nearby hostel. Charlie arrives at the hostel and meets his roommates, Karl (Rupert Grint) and Luc (James Buckley). While they are partying, where Luc spikes Charlie's beer with Carpathian ecstasy, Charlie uses the bathroom and meets Nigel waiting to apologize to him for his behavior earlier, which Charlie accepts. He then sees Gabi walking, and they both go for a run to a nearby subway. After they stop by Victor's favorite café, they part, with Gabi telling him that, if he finds her the next day, she will kiss him. Charlie, excited, ends up being hit by a car, and imagines Nigel being the one who hit him. It turns out to be the taxi driver who brought him to his hotel. The next day, Charlie wakes up to find out that Karl has taken too much Viagra, and they go to a club for medical help for Karl's priapism. The trio are shocked with a bill they are given and are taken to a room by Security and meet Darko (Til Schweiger), a friend of Nigel who questions Charlie of his involvement with Gabi. After they leave, he meets Gabi at her house for a party honoring Victor, and they go to a room for Gabi to share a kiss. He tells her about Darko, and she warns him of the kind of man he is. After everyone watches home videos of Victor, Nigel finds Charlie there and asks him personally to make his face look like a tuba player's face, and begins wondering if Charlie is really a tuba player. Gabi forces Nigel to leave with her revolver. After the guests leave, Gabi tells Charlie that she made the mistake of marrying Nigel; he was injured before they married, and he listened to the music she played at the café where she grew up playing. After he recovered, he told her that her music "saved his life." She then realized that he was a cruel man, but it was too late. Her father (Victor) found a tape to use against Nigel to force him to leave the country, but that plan never worked out. Afterwards, Charlie confesses that he is in love with her, and they have sex. He tells her that his mother died, to which she responds that they finally "have something in common." The next morning, Charlie finds Gabi gone and a note telling him to not leave the house. Charlie finds a room filled with tapes and locates the tape that was meant to be used against Nigel, containing footage of him killing everyone at a dinner table. Charlie then leaves and finds Gabi with Nigel at a restaurant and explains that he "saw the tape". Nigel beats up Charlie to find out where the tape is, but doesn't. Once Nigel leaves him, the cops arrive and take Charlie away. The police tell him that Gabi doesn't want to see him anymore and that he will be taken to Budapest. He is taken to his hostel to get his belongings, but the hostel owner tells him that men were looking for him. When the men spot him, they chase Charlie to a subway, where he loses them. He returns to Gabi's home to look for the tape and finds Darko there, showing him that Karl and Luc's backs are glued together. Gabi calls Darko and talks about the tape, leaving Charlie injured. Charlie waits for Gabi at the Opera House, where she tells him that she doesn't want to see him again and says goodbye. She goes to her car with Nigel, where it is revealed that they have the tape and that Gabi had to tell Charlie she didn't want to see him so life would go on. Charlie, saddened by what she said, once again sees his mother as a spirit, where she tells him that she is proud of him and hopes he doesn't die; Charlie says, if he does, he dies "for love." After his mother disappears, he runs to Gabi's car and pulls Nigel out in an attempt to escape. Charlie then attempts to fight him, only to be knocked unconscious. He wakes up above a lake, hanging upside down by a rope. On a deck, Nigel burns the tape and prepares to shoot Charlie, only to have Gabi do it. She shoots his shirt to make it look like he's dead, and the cops arrive. Charlie is dropped into the lake, presumed dead by Gabi. Nigel, with a sudden change of heart, commits suicide by cop. Charlie, to Gabi's delight, is revealed to be alive. The film ends with Karl and Luc finally being separated from the super glue, and Charlie and Gabi finally together in a relationship. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charlie Countryman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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