: Chaplin

Rating: - Nice look into Charlie's life!
This is a very good movie about the life and work of the greatest genius in film history. Robert Downey Jr. is superb as Charlie! He captures Charlie's mannerisms, his wit and his sadness. Watch as Geraldine Chaplin plays the role of her real grandmother.

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Rating: - Chaplin - A Genius Remembered!
So much has been made of Chaplin and what he did in the prime of his career...this collection takes its audience into the early world of Chaplin...giving us a glimpse of things to come. Watch the cultilvation of the Tramp character come to fruition...step by step...frame by frame...short by short. A peek at a true genius and how that genius developed into the world's most recognizable movie superstar!

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Rating: - Detailed dive into dynamic comic...
This film truly is a masterpiece. It's a crime Robert Downey Jr. didn't win the oscar for this role that he filled perfectly. The portrail of Chaplin does not skim over his faults. And although the film doesn't delve too deep into Chaplin's darker side, it goes beneath the glossy surface you are likely to have seen in biography shows on TV.


Touchs on all the major events in the life of Charlie Chaplin.

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Rating: - A very stern but inspiring look at Charlie Chaplin's life
Though a great deal had already been written all about the world's most famous and talented comedy actor, here is a film to present his history in every frank detail for the very first time. After the opening credits where the handsome young Robert Downey Jr. sensuously wiped his chalk-white Chaplin makeup right off, the celebrated tramp's autobiography begins at his childhood when the little moppet with tousled hair raced gleefully right through the theater where his mentally unstable mother used to sing. Then we are taken though the turn-of-the-century vaudeville days where Mr. Chaplin first fell into love with a beautiful young girl and the behind-the-scenes shots at the Keystone studios where he got his very first break as The Tramp. Here we personally witness the steamy love scenes and the scorching sandals and trials with several young ladies in Chaplin's life. Then the poor long-suffering old man finally found his true love who would continue to remain with him for the rest of his life and thus produce many beautiful children with him, including the lovely Geraldine Chaplin who would play the actor's mother in this movie. But the aging celebrity's peace would be quite short-lived, for he would be so suddenly exiled from the very country he himself had adopted and entertained for several decades. But in the very end, the old Charlie Chaplin would return in great glory to be lionized for his filmmaking deeds and his tremendous contribution to the relatively short history of cinematography. A very bold and insightful study of a much acclaimed actor yet a very sad and frustrated man in his private life.

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Rating: - BEST BIOPIC
When I usually watch a biopic I fell as if the actor has taken the persons image from them. I didnt feel that way with "Chaplin" Robert Downey Jr. really captures Charles Chaplin. This is the greatest biopic ever made.A must see.