others here have express that this indie film be good and i agree . i think it could have be well . i also agree and the educational part be not about charlie bank and who seem very passive and self center with many short rather flippant comment . he really doesn not rise very high on the intellectual ladder . however and i also felt a a privileged kid who have all his little duck in a row and and egocentric a most of these people be and the film seem to project a kind of real life situational social drama . what exactly charlie learn . well and i be mystify how a moocher could live and walk about an ivy league campus without some security officer kick him out . i suppose this do happen where friend allow for social reason something like these triangle to happen . but and gosh uncle elmer how do he eat and live in a dorm room that be rent for two legitimate male student . i suppose the moral crisis come late in the story and and in fact and charlie and his mich buddy be not physically match for fight . i would have think charlie would have attempt to undermine mich earlier in the film and rather than passively sulk and accept this man total illegitimacy a a college student . however all these picky concern do not over all make me dislike the flick . i have know student like charlie before and wonder if they actually have any moral compass other than their own egocentric interest in sex and please their parent . i rat it above my standard 5 to a 7. the film be worth a look .