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Chaplin

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Robert Downey Jr.

Geraldine Chaplin

Paul Rhys

Marisa Tomei

Milla Jovovich

John Thaw

Moira Kelly

Anthony Hopkins

Dan Aykroyd

Penelope Ann Miller

Kevin Kline

Maria Pitillo

Kevin Dunn

Deborah Moore

Diane Lane

Nancy Travis

James Woods

Hugh Downer

Nicholas Gatt

Bill Paterson

Anthony Bowles

Bryan Coleman

Howard Lew Lewis

P.H. Moriarty

Brian Lipson

Alan Ford

Thomas Bradford

Liz Porter

Ultan Ely-O'Carroll

Marcus Eyre

Anwar Adaoui

Ben Bilson

Matthew Cartwright

Ian Covington

Adam Goodwin

Milly Gregory

Sam Holland

Josh Maguire

Daniel Sherman

Luke Strain

Frankie Sullivan

Karen Salt

Gerald Sim

Una Brandon-Jones

Audrey Leybourne

Graham Sinclair

Karen Lewis

Andrée Bernard

Carole Jahme

Jacqueline Leonard

Claire Perriam

Theresa Petts

David Gant

Mary Healey

Malcolm Terris

Phil Brown

Matthew Cottle

Ena Baga

David Duchovny

Mario Govoni

David Mooney

C.J. Golden

Raymond Lynch

Peter Georges

Mike Randleman

Mike Peluso

Caroline Cornell

Ann Fairlie

Paul Hayes

Dennis Vero

Francesca Buller

Nick Corello

Richard Fast

Brad Blumenthal

Yoshio Be

Peter Crook

David Totheroh

Jack Totheroh

Jack Ritschel

Heather McNair

Laura Bastianelli

Joy Claussen

Paul Bruno Grenier

Marykate Harris

Charles Howerton

Jason Logan

Renata Scott

Michael Villani

Jerry Jensen

Larry Randolph

Alan Charof

Dana Craig

Kennedy Grant

Ken Magee

Benjamin Whitrow

Edward Crangle

Stuart Richman

Mark Vegh

Caroline Guthrie

Lawrence Lambert

Mario Kassar

Richard Attenborough

Sven Nykvist

John Barry

José Padilla

William Goldman

William Boyd

Bryan Forbes

Anne V. Coates

Susie Figgis

Edward Tise

John Mollo

Nikki Clapp

Gerry Humphreys

Jonathan Bates

Andrew Glen

David James

Dean Humphreys

Robin Glenn

Shawn Murphy

Michael Crouch

Ellen Mirojnick

Valorie Massalas

John Wolstenholme

Mike Fenton

Richmond L. Aguilar

Stuart Craig

Gina Fortunato

Charlie Chaplin

Leila Kirkpatrick

David Robinson

Norman Dorme

Terence A. Clegg

Diana Hawkins

Jim Morahan

Wally Schneiderman

George Marshall Ruge

Susanne McKenrick

Alan E. Lorimer

David Harris

Marguerite Happy

Andy Bradford

John Moio

Jim Wilkey

Stephanie Kaye

Peter C. Graupner

Kate Flatt

Stephen Masters

Joe Dunne

Lee Cleary

Keith Campbell

Dan Kamin

Neil Summers

Brian J. Williams

Jill Rockow

Peter Brace

Daniel W. Barringer

Michael D. Moore

David Tomblin

Chris Lyons

Carole Bennett

Ron Berkeley

John Caglione Jr.

Beryl Lerman

Audrey Futterman-Stern

Alexander Witt

Chris Corbould

John Higgins

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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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