Chaplin (15th Anniversary Edition)
by Richard Attenborough
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, Robert Downey Jr.Director: Richard Attenborough
Brand: DOWNEY,ROBERT JR.
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Composer: John Barry
Editor: Anne V. Coates
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Chaplin (15th Anniversary Edition)
Movie Review: An Amazing Performance by Downey
Summary: 5 Stars
Downey is brilliant as Chaplin. Chaplin the man is fascinating as well. A very well made film.Chaplin (15th Anniversary Edition)
Summary of Chaplin (15th Anniversary Edition)
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. captures the essence of comic genius Charlie Chaplin in a compelling, nuanced performance that earned him Oscar(r) and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor. Director Richard Attenborough's well-crafted portrait traces Chaplin's impoverished London upbringing, extraordinary success as an actor and director, his troubled marriages, scandalous affairs, shocking exile to Switzerland and his triumphant return to Hollywood. The huge star-studded cast includes KEVIN KLINE, DAN AYKROYD, MILLA JOVOVICH, DIANE LANE and GERALDINE CHAPLIN (as her own grandmother), and Downey's astonishing mimicry of Chaplin's gait, gestures and accents complete a dazzlingly authentic portrait of one of cinema's first pop culture icons.Sir Richard Attenborough's biographical film of the life and times of Charles Chaplin is a little thin as a narrative, but it is so charmingly creative and ultimately moving, it's hard to care about any deficits. Robert Downey Jr. does an excellent job re-creating Chaplin's graceful slapstick and getting inside the silent-film superstar's head over many years of triumph, defeat, scandal, official persecution, exile, and inner peace. A huge cast portray the allies, friends, lovers, and enemies in Chaplin's life, including Moira Kelly as his final, longtime wife, Oona, Kevin Kline as Douglas Fairbanks, Geraldine Chaplin as Charlie's mother, and James Woods as a prosecutor working hard to nail Chaplin for anti-American sentiments. Attenborough declines to tell the story in a flat, linear way, employing such clever techniques as detailing one chapter in Chaplin's life as a silent comedy. The climactic scene set at an Oscar tribute for Chaplin will get the tears flowing. --Tom Keogh
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