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      The Kid

      Released Jan 21, 1921 1h 0m Comedy Drama List
      100% 50 Reviews Tomatometer 95% 10,000+ Ratings Audience Score Chaplin's first full-length feature is a silent masterpiece about a little tramp who discovers a little orphan and brings him up but is left desolate when the orphanage reclaims him. Chaplin directed, produced and starred in the film, as well as composed the score. Read More Read Less

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      Charles Chaplin' irascible Tramp is given able support from Jackie Coogan as The Kid in this slapstick masterpiece, balancing the guffaws with moments of disarming poignancy.

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      Steve D A classic if this is your kind of film. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/24 Full Review MM N One of the greatest child acting performances ever. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/24 Full Review Lars N Sweet and funny. Basic storytelling that still manage to engage evene after a hundred years. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/12/24 Full Review Teddy B Although the runtime is almost ridiculously short, Charlie Chaplin's directorial debut still stands as one of his most poignant, clever, charming, and witty features to date and is only ever lifted up with Jackie Coogan's irresistibly adorable, irascible, and precocious performance as the title lead. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/19/23 Full Review Alec B Like so much of Chaplin's early filmography, "The Kid" takes a plot that could easily be maudlin and injects it with inspired humor and amusing flights of fancy. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/14/23 Full Review Daniel K Paul Rudd was not in this movie Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Grace Kingsley Los Angeles Times There's really no classifying The Kid. The best one can do is say that it has all the old melodramatic material, but so jazzed up with fun and with its drama so simply and humanly played, that it almost fools you into believing it is like life. Jun 25, 2021 Full Review Mabel McElliott New York Daily News Jackie, legging it madly 'cross corners, is almost as good for box office purposes as our own Charles, playing the Artful Dodger to a Bowery bum. May 17, 2021 Full Review Times (UK) Staff Times (UK) Formerly it was the custom to say that Mr. Chaplin played down to the level of his audiences. Now it is to be hoped that he will lift his audiences up to this new level of his own. Aug 5, 2020 Full Review Carl Sandburg Chicago Daily News Those constant contenders who maintain that Charlie Chaplin is the master mummer of the movies and the world's greatest actor, either in the silent or the spoken drama, now have another exhibit to put forward in behalf of their argument. Mar 28, 2022 Full Review Robert E. Sherwood LIFE Chaplin, as always, demonstrates the marvelous quality which, in the cinema world, is so exclusively his own -- the ability to be coarse without being offensive; to mix Rabelaisian wit with Chesterfieldian delicacy. Oct 4, 2021 Full Review John McDonald Australian Financial Review The Kid was a breakthrough for Chaplin and for the industry in the way it combined slapstick comedy with the kind of drama that touched viewers' hearts. Aug 1, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Chaplin's first full-length feature is a silent masterpiece about a little tramp who discovers a little orphan and brings him up but is left desolate when the orphanage reclaims him. Chaplin directed, produced and starred in the film, as well as composed the score.
      Director
      Charlie Chaplin
      Screenwriter
      Charlie Chaplin
      Production Co
      Charles Chaplin Productions
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jan 21, 1921, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Sep 2, 2016
      Runtime
      1h 0m
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