The movie is a re-creation of the troubled and controversial life of the master comedy filmmaker Charles Chaplin, from his humble beginnings in south London through his early days in British vaudeville, his silent movie career in America and his late masterpieces.
16 August 1934, London, England, UK
2 December 1970, Kent, Ohio, USA
2 March 1955, Wicklow, Ireland
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
16 February 1967, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
11 December 1946, Texas, USA
24 August 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 August 1914, Niles, California, USA
2 September 1960, Orlando, Florida, USA
15 January 1906, Clerkenwell, London, England, UK
16 May 1934, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 September 1963, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
25 March 1962, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
1 July 1952, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
28 April 1946
September 25, 2012
Might be of interest to fans of the great comic, but as entertainment it ultimately fails.June 24, 2006
Attenborough's very traditional biopic is a disappointment.May 20, 2003
It's slick packaging around what is mostly warm air.February 27, 2008
With this reverential biopic, director Richard Attenborough has cranked out a many-reel, talky talkie.May 12, 2001
The thrill of the ending, with real Chaplin film clips, only exposes the rest as a soporific.October 16, 2008
The movie was clearly made with a lot of love, and it has one deciding factor that sells it: Robert Downey Jr.February 27, 2008
A sadly unenlightening attempt to profile the king of clowns.December 04, 2008
It's a loving and often endearing homage to a man, but as with all things Hollywood, it ain't historyAugust 16, 2011
Robert Downey Jr. gives a strong, Oscar-nominated performance, but Attenborough's disappointingly formulaic biopic doesn't capture Chaplin's genius as artist or his complex lifeFebruary 27, 2008
For all the movie's undisputed competence, grand and inspired moments are thin on the ground.February 27, 2008
A lot of loving care (but not much thought) went into this white elephant, and considering how fascinating a figure Chaplin is it's never exactly boring, but your time would be much better spent looking at any of Chaplin's pictures.January 01, 2000
It's a monumental biopic that cheapens the hero's successes by glossing over the failures that surely also shaped the man.