![]() Later, Charlie invites Tess to ride with him on an old sail boat he has bought. Charlie uses his body heat to keep her warm until the Coast Guard arrives, protecting her against hypothermia. They find the wrecked boat and an unconscious Tess. Sam appears to Charlie as a shooting star, revealing Tess' location. At sunset, Charlie misses his game with Sam, causing him to move on from the living world as the brothers affirm their love. With his friend Alistair and Tess's coach Tink, Charlie takes Tink's boat to find her. ![]() Remembering that Florio believed there is no such thing as a lost cause, he becomes convinced that Tess is alive and that he was saved to save her now. After meeting her on the docks, he believes he's really been interacting with her spirit as she appeared at the cemetery, and he assumes she died at sea.įlorio's wife Carla tells Charlie that Florio died the previous night, giving him his St. Charlie explains his ongoing relationship with Sam to Tess, who has followed him, and ends things to not lose Sam.Ĭharlie learns that Tess disappeared with her boat in a storm three days earlier. Later, when Charlie arrives late to see Sam, he says he felt Charlie forgetting him and himself disappearing. He tends to her at his home and they develop a relationship. The following day, Charlie finds an injured Tess tending her father's grave. At the docks, Charlie meets Tess Carroll, an old classmate and sailor planning to solo-sail around the world. Charlie runs into Florio, who is dying of cancer.įlorio encourages Charlie to live his life more fully, in search of the reason why he was saved. He continues to interact with ghosts, including his friend Sully who died in the Marines. Charlie fulfills Sam's dying wish by practicing baseball with him every day at sunset, even though it keeps Sam's spirit from "moving on."įive years later, Charlie is a caretaker at Waterside Cemetery, having abandoned his scholarship. Running through the woods, he finds his spirit and discovers they can interact. At the funeral, Charlie runs off, unable to put Sam's baseball glove in the grave. Paramedic Florio Ferrente revives Charlie but Sam dies in his arms. During an out-of-body experience, Charlie hugs and reassures Sam, promising not to leave him. The car later gets rear-ended by a SUV, pushing them into an intersection where they are T-boned by a 18-wheeler, killing them both. While on the road, Charlie reassures him that his departure will not be like their father's abandonment. Charlie tries sneaking out to the party, but Sam catches him and asks for a ride to his friend Tommy's house. That night, Charlie wants to attend a graduation party with his friends, but his mother makes him babysit Sam. ![]() He graduates from Winslow High School and after graduation, Charlie promises Sam they will practice baseball every day until he leaves for Stanford. Cloud, with his younger brother Sam, wins a boating race on his sailboat Splendid Splinter, subsequently receiving a sailing scholarship to Stanford University. Cloud grossed just $48 million worldwide against a production budget of $44 million (not including advertisement and distribution costs).Ĭharlie St. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, with many criticizing the script's tonal confliction and Efron's performance. Cloud was theatrically released in the United States on Jand was both a critical and commercial failure. Filming lasted from July to late October 2009, with much of it occurring in upstate New York's forest and Gibsons' coastal pier.Ĭharlie St. The film's production (by Relativity Media and Marc Platt Productions) began in upstate New York and British Columbia. In some markets the film used the complete title of the book.Īfter winning the rights to adapt the book into film, Universal Pictures had James Schamus and Lewis Colick write drafts for the script, with Craig Pearce writing the final script, and director Steers helping to polish it for completion. Cloud's choice between keeping a promise he made to his younger brother, who died in a car accident, or going after the girl he loves. The film is directed by Burr Steers and stars Zac Efron and Amanda Crew. Cloud, published in 2004 by Bantam Books. Cloud is a 2010 American supernatural drama film based on Ben Sherwood's novel The Death and Life of Charlie St.
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