Charlie St. Cloud

Last night we watched Charlie St. Cloud.  It wasn't terrible, but I was the only one who stayed awake, if that tells you anything.  Spoiler Alert!  If you haven't seen the movie already, this will ruin the ending for you!  Its a very cliche depiction of a guy who has everything going for him and loses it all, blah, blah, blah.  On the day of his high school graduation, with a sailing scholarship to Stanford waiting, Charlie gets into his car with his little brother, Sam, without the permission of their mother.  On their way to wherever it was they were going (Charlie wants to go to a party and Sam wants him to drop him at a friend's house on the way) they are struck from behind by a drunk driver, and then t-boned on the passenger side by a semi-truck.  They both die, but the paramedic miraculously brings Charlie back, while his brother dies beside him.  After the funeral, Charlie makes a pact with his brother's ghost to meet up every day in the same spot in the woods by the graveyard where Sam is buried.  So, the kid gives up everything to be near his dead brother so they can play catch every day at sunset.  Charlie gets a job working for the graveyard, so he's close by Sam all of the time, and occasionally, he even sees, and talks to, other ghosts as well.  Everyone in town has him rumored to be crazy of coarse.  He runs into a girl who had a crush on him in high school and they seem to hit it off for a brief moment before she takes off to test her sail boat out for her big 6 month long sailing trip around the world.  She returns to the cemetery where Charlie works, and where her father is buried, to have yet another well-played out conversation with Charlie where he offers to make her dinner.  Having her leave and come back being the only way that he could still meet his dead brother Sam for their sunset game of catch and conversation.  At dinner, Charlie and Tess really hit it off and they do the dirty, or so you gather since they don't show anything :( and he awakes in the cemetery only to find Tess has taken his old sail boat out.  They get out on the water together and everything is all romantic until Charlie realizes it's almost sunset and runs off into the woods to meet Sam.  Tess follows, finding out that Charlie spends his sunset every day with his dead brother, of coarse, makes her think he is a little crazy and has some issues to work out, so she tries to help, but Charlie sends her away, drinks Jack Daniels all night to wake up with a hang over, needing some coffee, which he gets from a local diner.  While Charlie is trying to kick the headache, some local law enforcement announces that Tess's boat had never returned after she took it out into the storm for a test 3 days ago, and thus she had not returned either.  As this is going on, Tess takes her dog out for a walk in town and realizes that Charlie is the only person who can see her and that she doesn't actually have a reflection.  It is a surprise to them both that Tess seems to be one of Charlie's ghosts.  At first, he believes that she is dead, but soon realizes that she is just lost and is coming in and out of the "in between world".  Charlie takes off to find Tess, and he finds and rescues her while missing his sunset date with his brother.  Sam finally crosses over, and Charlie and Tess recover from their icy cold adventure.  Charlie sails up to Tess's dock in an old sailboat he bought and she tells him that she has been dreaming about him.  As she recalls parts of the "dreams", Charlie tells Tess they are actually memories and then recalls some of their very intimate conversation to convince her.  They sail into the sunset where you assume that they live happily ever after..........