Charly

Charly Gordon, a bakery worker with an IQ of only 59, is selected as a test-subject for a pioneering experiment in intelligence enhancement. The experiment is successful and Charly rapidly progresses in learning until he becomes a genius. But his emotions lag considerably behind and after his primitive advances are rejected by his teacher Alice Kinian he becomes a social dropout. Charly returns and Alice accepts him. But then he learns that the effects of the experiment are starting to reverse themselves.