Charly is a 1968 American drama film directed and produced by Ralph Nelson and written by Stirling Silliphant.
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12 Facts About Charly
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Charly has a desire to learn and has attended night school for two years, taking a class taught by Alice Kinnian.
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Charly learns to read and write, though his spelling and penmanship are poor and he is unable to spell his own name.
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Charly consistently loses to Algernon, but is selected for the surgery.
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Charly's coworkers tell him to operate a complex machine, hoping that he will break it so they can have the day off, but he successfully operates it.
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Charly flees in an act of rebellion but eventually returns to Boston, and the two start to consider marriage.
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Charly reveals that Algernon has lost his enhanced intelligence and died, facts that the research team kept from him, and expects to undergo a similar decline.
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Charly falls into a depression and asks Alice never to visit him again.
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Some time later, Alice sees Charly playing with children on the playground, having fully regressed to his original level of intellectual disability.
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Charly bought the rights to the story, hoping to star in the film version as well.
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Charly's cares for him, but inadequately understands the problems he's facing.
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