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Haven’t you always wanted to see Boston from a retard’s point of view? Charly is a “retardate” who gets an operation that makes him smarter. Upon becoming smarter, he joins a biker gang and smokes pot and has a psychedelic experience with bad special effects. Then he comes to his senses, and becomes a genius, and falls in love with his teacher, which results in a happy love sequence involving more bad special effects.

Based upon the novel “Flowers for Algernon,” which I loved as an 8th grader, this film doesn’t live up to its depressing potential. The ending is a bit different, much happier. The thing that made the book so great was its depressing ending! Anyway, this film is good if you like cheesy special effects, and a dark vision of the future.