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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304398395 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, EP, NTSC ISBN: 6304398395 Label: Lions Gate/Artisan Languages: Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Artisan Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Lions Gate/Artisan Release Date: January 12, 1999 Running Time: 135 minutes Studio: Lions Gate/Artisan Theatrical Release Date: January 08, 1993 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Downey and the cast are top notchI actually met Robert back in the day when they were filming this. He was in Charlie Chaplin character and didn't speak a word - used only expressions and cracked us up. It was funny, then when I finally saw the film just this year, I realized how talented this man is, and often with talent comes addictions etc. If you've seen Iron Man, Downey is having a great comeback! Chaplin is a really candid look at Mr. Chaplin's real life, the silent films, the era,the politics of old Hollywood etc. I tried ... Read More Rating:  - ChaplinRobert Downey Jr. nailed it! A wonderful well done movie! I think any Charlie Chaplin fan would appreciate it. Rating: - So Right To Have Remained BritishIt 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 goodThis 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 ChaplinAttenborough'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 |
