Charlie St. Cloud

Despite its okayish rating on imdb, i went ahead and saw the movie one night... More owing to lack of any other better alternative than anything else. :) The movie is based on a novel of the same name by Ben Sherwood.
And boy i was hooked to it straightaway... Right from the first scene showing the happy life of Charlie St Cloud (Zack Efron) in the adorable sea facing town in British Columbia, Canada.  the elegant sail boats, the rustic cannon that shoots every hour like a town clock, the unhurried pace of a small town is a pleasant departure from the frantic pace of our day to day life in cities...
However tragedy strikes Charlie St Cloud at a very young age and, ever since, a part of him too dies with it. He just quits living life for the next five years by throwing away college and a promising carrier and taking up a dead end and low rewarding job in a cemetary.
Enter the beautiful Tess Caroll ( amanda crew)

whose captivating beauty and a shared passion of sailing was what he desperately needed to jolt him out of his comatose life. An hence the wonderful line on its poster- Life is for Living! :-)
In the end, Charlie St Loud is a movie that will delight the hopeless romantics like me who have a tolerance for the surreal, those who admire the natural beauty of a sea facing town and often pine for the slow and jovial pace of  life in the country side.
 But it may fail to impress those who have a more practical approach towards life, who have no patience for human emotions, psyche or romance. :-)