Chaplin

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Summary: "Talkies!!!"
Review: This is a lush production with a great cast of fine actors. Once in a while some of the actors cross the line into melodrama, but the remainder show up and their work is extremely talented. But the star of this film is Robert Downey, Jr. who steals every scene he is in either with subtlety or a dead-on impression of the late, great Charlie Chaplin. Director Richard Attenborough carries the huge production all the way with moments of inspiration that the actors feed on like mana. This is an interesting biography of the true comic genius, Charlie Chaplin.

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Summary: Nice look into Charlie's life!
Review: 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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Summary: Superb!
Review: This is a wonderful film. The honest, tragic, touching story of one man's life from his poor childhood with a crazy mother, to the film pioneer he became. Buy it, rent it. See it. (Oh, and while David Duchovny's part is small, he looks adorable for the duration <g>)

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Summary: Downey at his best
Review: This is one of my fav flicks. Downey at his best, great score by John Barry which i listen to more than just once in a blue moon. i still can't get over Downey not winning the oscar, i was utterly depressed when Al took it home. Life isn't fair i suppose :)
Oh well but i totally recommend this movie. Watch it and get ready to fall in love with Robert and his portrayal of Chaplin.

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Summary: Chaplin
Review: This movie is enjoyable even if you aren't familiar with Charlie Chaplin films, but is wonderfully resonant if you are. The real Chaplin onscreen is made of Teflon: the worst things happen to him and he just keeps dancing. Offscreen, his life was troubled to say the least. "Chaplin" does a good job of wordlessly illuminating this apparent tension: by showing what laughter meant to the child of a deranged mother, the brilliance of the California sunshine to someone raised under English skies, and the struggle for marital peace in a workaholic, constantly changing world of pretenders and, in the guise of J. Edgar Hoover and his minions, hostile critics. Charlie Chaplin comes across as a man unable to exorcise his demons verbally, but brilliantly trying to through the language of dance, eyebrows, and unending farce. The man had no vanity onscreen, but he ended up being beautiful.

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Summary: A very stern but inspiring look at Charlie Chaplin's life
Review: 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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Summary: Beautiful!
Review: What can I say, it makes me cry, every time...and I didn't believe that anyone could do good films anymore!

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Summary: BEST BIOPIC
Review: 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.