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Chaplin

1992

Richard Attenborough

Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin ...

6.7

7,370

Drama Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, and Chaplin's real-life daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, who portrays his mentally ill mother. With the use of flashback, an elderly Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor (Hopkins), who urges him to be more vulnerable ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Your time would be much better spent looking at any of Chaplin's pictures"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is a disappointing, misguided movie that has all of the parts in place to be a much better one (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"A monumental biopic that cheapens the hero's successes by glossing over the failures that surely also shaped the man"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[It is] windy, courtly, full of names and dates but never terribly revealing about either the film maker's life or his art"
		Angie Errigo Empire	"For all the movie's undisputed competence, grand and inspired moments are thin on the ground (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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