Movie review | Zac Efron drama lacks ability to come together

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Zac Efron and Charlie Tahan star in a scene from the movie “Charlie St. Cloud.” The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is adults.

NEW YORK — Zac Efron sees dead people — and talks with them, too — in "Charlie St. Cloud" (Universal).

Since ticket sales for this drama will likely be driven more by the well-established heartthrob's eyes themselves than by anything reflected in them, it may seem superfluous to point out that director Burr Steers' melancholy parable, adapted from Ben Sherwood's best-selling 2004 novel, "The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud," never quite jells.