Desc: Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase: Directed by Larry Elikann. With Jack Albertson, Adrienne Barbeau, John Reilly, Slim Pickens. Charlie Bartlett is a retired railroad worker whose dream of crossing the country in a hot air balloon is encouraged by his grandson Morris O'Neill. Morris decides to go along with his grandfather for the ride despite the misgivings of Morris's widowed mother Susan, whose plans to remarry have left her son disenchanted.