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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Video Download
Release Date: July 16, 2008
Running Time: 145 minutes
Studio: Lionsgate
Theatrical Release Date: January 07, 1993
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Rating:  - Chaplin
Robert Downey Jr. nailed it! A wonderful well done movie! I think any Charlie Chaplin fan would appreciate it.
Rating:  - So Right To Have Remained British
It is probably not the best film ever made about Charlie Chaplin, and I even think it is far behind Charlie Chaplin's own autobiography on which it is supposed to be based. But it makes a couple of points rather well. First, show business is business first of all. Brutal, expeditious, pitiless, cruel, full of hate and with hardly any love, except the illusion of a companionship they call love in Hollywood. But we know that. And even the FBI or McCarthy could not touch that: business money is business ... Read More
Rating: - Not perfect, but very good
This is far from a perfect movie, but it's still a very good movie and interesting for a number of reasons.
On the down side, I think it probably presents a very biased view of Chaplin, at the expenses of many of his contemporaries (Mabel Normand in particular). It would have been a much better movie had it been less eager to excuse the less appealing aspects of Chaplin's personality.
On the up side, Robert Downey, Jr., does a remarkable job of imitating Chaplin's physical ... Read More
Rating: - Little Known Chaplin
Attenborough's Chaplin offers a more politicalized perspective on this iconic star of American cinema. The film focuses on Chaplin's (played by Robert Downey Jr.) rise and fall in American film, culiminating in his exile from the United States after Hoover's relentless attempts to prove him a communist threat finally succeeded. Downey Jr. is really quite good as Chaplin, especially in the evolution of his English accent. (Although as the elderly Chaplin, he is a bit creepy). Anyone who is a tried and true ... Read More
Rating: - CHAPLIN
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. is at his best. His portrayal of Chaplin gave me a real appreciation of the man and his talents. I am now watching as many of the old Chaplin movies as I can find.
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