Comedy · Drama
The Kid
Avg rating 8.8 / My rating TBC
1921 · Directed by Charlie Chaplin · With Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Carl Miller
- Silent Cinema
- Comedy
- Melodrama
- Classical Hollywood
A poor city glazier, Chaplin's Tramp, ends up responsible for a small child nobody else seems to want. Slapstick, street-level poverty and open tenderness share the screen in the first feature Chaplin directed, a comedy that sets out to move as well as amuse.
Film info
- Runtime
- 1h 08m · 68 min
- Format
- Silent, black and white, in the squarer silent-era frame. Tinting and restoration quality vary between releases.
- IMDb
- 8.2 / 10 (144,275 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 100% (critics)
- TMDB
- 8.1 / 10 (audience, 2,455 votes)
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