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Everyone has a wild side. Even a legend.
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
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Oct 24, 2022 · via TMDB
Told by way of a retrospective, this is a stylish and informative - if not always very entertaining - biopic on the legendary film star. He is discussing his autobiography and as he meanders down memory lane, we accompany him from his life in Edwardian London through his journey to the USA where he found fame with Keystone Studios and developed the legendary "Tramp" persona that resonated so well with an increasingly poverty-stricken populace. Robert Downey Jnr is effective in the title role, conveying much of the quirkiness - and selfishness - of this character. Geraldine Chaplin (his real life daughter) delivers a poignantly strong, if sparing, contribution and the attention to detail with costumes and sets is special. Thing is, although it must have been hard for Richard Attenborough to condense eighty-eight years of this man's hugely interesting life into one film, those moments he has selected tend a little towards the more salacious; those less demonstrative of his creative genius. The scenes at the start when an opportunity was there to illustrate to us how his workhouse upbringing instilled the ethic that was to drive him all his life - we skip through them all too superficially (though maybe that's because there was no role for Downey?). The political emphasis on the McCarthy witch-hunts is interesting, and the general FBI conspiracy elements are developed well, but for me this is much less about the man than it is about the myth and that's a shame. The supporting cast deliver well enough - John Thaw as his discoverer "Karno" and Dan Aykroyd strong amongst them, and to be fair it does rather fly by for almost 2½ hours. I can't help but admire the director's intention to encapsulate such a lot into such a little amount of screen time, but perhaps it was just never really possible in the first place - if justice were ever to be done to this flawed, enigmatic, charming, ruthless and funny man.
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Robert Downey Jr.
Charles Spencer Chaplin
Geraldine Chaplin
Hannah Chaplin
Paul Rhys
Sydney Chaplin
John Thaw
Fred Karno
Moira Kelly
Hetty Kelly / Oona O'Neill
Anthony Hopkins
George Hayden
Dan Aykroyd
Mack Sennett
Marisa Tomei
Mabel Normand
Penelope Ann Miller
Edna Purviance
Kevin Kline
Douglas Fairbanks
Maria Pitillo
Mary Pickford
Milla Jovovich
Mildred Harris
Kevin Dunn
J. Edgar Hoover
Deborah Moore
Lita Grey
Diane Lane
Paulette Goddard
Nancy Travis
Joan Barry
James Woods
Joseph Scott
Bill Paterson
Stage Manager
Bryan Coleman
Drunk
Howard Lew Lewis
Workhouse Official
P.H. Moriarty
Workhouse Official
Brian Lipson
Warder
Alan Ford
Warder
Marcus Eyre
Policeman
Josh Maguire
Lambeth Kid
Gerald Sim
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Una Brandon-Jones
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Karen Lewis
Yankee Doodle Dancer
Andrée Bernard
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Jacqueline Leonard
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David Gant
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Mary Healey
Mrs. Karno
Malcolm Terris
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Phil Brown
Projectionist
Matthew Cottle
Stan Laurel
David Duchovny
Rollie Totheroh
Francesca Buller
Minnie Chaplin
Nick Corello
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Brad Blumenthal
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Jason Logan
Dinner Guest
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Robert Stephens
Ted the Drunk
Mark Long
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Sean O'Bryan
Lewis Seeley
Donald Elson
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Donnie Kehr
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William Dennis Hunt
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Alexander Witt
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Ellen Mirojnick
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Dan Kamin
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Kate Flatt
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Andy Bradford
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Jim Wilkey
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Mike Fenton
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