Not just another "biopic," but one that requires colossal gall for any actor or director to undertake. And Robert Downey, Jr., and Richard Attenborough, respectively, may reasonably be described as any old actor and director -- supremely uncharismatic in the first case, surpassingly pedestrian in the second. To their credit, they don't attempt many re-creations of Chaplin's screen work, but that's only another way of saying they wouldn't have been up to it. Clips from actual Chaplin films, most of them held back till the teary climax at the Academy Awards show of 1972, help to remind us of the remarkable lack of resemblance between the real man and his impersonator. His real-life daughter Geraldine, who resembles him greatly, helps to remind us of that, too, by appearing on screen as his mother. With Diane Lane, Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline, and Nancy Travis. (1992) — Duncan Shepherd
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