Charlie Says

• Drama
• Crime

This drama excavates the unsettling aftermath of the Manson Family murders, not through sensationalism, but by focusing on the slow, painstaking process of deprogramming three young women complicit in unimaginable violence. A graduate student’s attempts to reach them aren’t presented as a triumphant rescue, but as a fraught and ethically complex exploration of responsibility, manipulation, and the fractured identities forged through extreme ideological control. The film generates a deeply uncomfortable tension, portraying a chilling normalcy within the prison walls as the women grapple with confronting the horrifying actions of their past and the insidious grip of Charles Manson’s influence, offering a quietly devastating portrait of lost youth and the arduous path—or impossibility—of reclaiming agency.