Everything We Know About ‘Charlie Harper’

“Sometimes I wonder if everything I remember is wrong,” We hear Nick Robinson’s character say. “The truth is between the things that happened and the memories I have.”

Love is a strange thing. But so are memories. The way that we perceive things can be different from how others do.

Charlie Harper explores the tensions between young love, ambition, and personal identity. The movie premiered at TIFF in 2025, written and directed by Tom Dean.

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THE PLOT

Charlie Harper is an emotional modern romance that explores the tension between love, ambition, identity, and personal growth. Through the evolving relationship of Charlie and Harper, the film examines what happens when two people deeply connected to one another begin growing in different directions, forcing them to confront whether love alone is enough.

The complicated relationship between Charlie and Harper as it unfolds in a non-linear way, illustrating the shifts in how they relate to one another over time. We check in at several points in their life together: when they first meet as teenagers exchanging mixtapes, regrouping after high school graduation, and leaving their small Florida town together for a bigger life in New Orleans.

The two have an undeniable connection, but cracks quickly start to show. There’s a lived-in authenticity to their recurring arguments. Harper, ambitiously pursuing a culinary career, is frustrated by Charlie’s listlessness. He feels condescended to when she asks him to consider taking a college course or cutting back on drinking. At various points, the characters directly offer a recollection from some undefined point in the future, when it’s no longer clear what they are to each other anymore. These scenes serve as poignant reminders of the subjectivity of memory.