A fine film. Although, they left way too much out of the movie from the fantastic novel, "Flowers for Algernon." There were also very useless scenes and at times quite stupid. Cliff Robertson is fantastic here though.

The superlative Academy Award-winning performance of Robertson playing a mentally retarded bakery worker is reason enough to see this one. The rest of the film is appreciably less successful.

A decent adaptation of the heart-breaking short story 'Flowers for Algernon' fails to truly bring on the hurt, when the formerly retarded Charly, realises that the effect of his I.Q. treatments, that has made him a genius, are beginning to diminish. It is, however, a story so strong that it's always going to leave you with something to think about - or perhaps not - which would be a point in itself.

I was forced to watch this in 2nd grade. Why they decided to show a movie with such a horrifying premise and ending to a bunch of 7-year-olds I'll never understand.

Robertson won an Oscar for his fine work here as the title character. Often needlessly arty but is well-served by the performances of Robertson and Bloom.

What this film taught me: intelligent people have maps of the solar system on their walls and unintelligent people wear clothes that don't fit.

Interesting that they did not show his decline (unlike the story/novel).

good

The psychedelic bit where he runs away is righteous.

The emotional resonance gets drowned out by some poor direction chioces. Good performances, but the TV movie from a couple years back is a better adaptation.

Robertson gives a good performance and it's a mostly strong adaptation of "Flowers For Algernon", but some really dated 60s "artistic" scenes in the middle and a twee romance undermine some of its impact.

Fascinating film, with a great performance by Robertson

Pretty damn decent adaptation of _Flowers for Algernon_. Cliff Robertson's excellent performance helps immeasurably

The psychedelic scenes really bring it down.