The film Chaplin (1992) stars Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin in a fictionalized recreation of his autobiography. The film starts off in England where Chaplin is from and shows him as a small boy. He lived with his mother and older brother Sydney in a small townhouse. The film shows that Chaplin’s mother was a stage performer, but when she was heckled off the stage and Charlie, who was very young, stepped out and performed her song instead; she never performed again. The only problem with her not performing was that she was no longer making any money and could not afford to pay her rent for the home that her and her two boys shared. After some time of not paying, the police came and took Charlie and Sydney away from their mother because she could no longer take car of them. The boys were taken to two different places, Charlie to a work camp/orphanage and Sydney was made to work on a ship. After a few years Charlie was taken back to his mother who had began making gloves to support herself and Charlie. The only real problem now was that she was no longer in a stable mind set and she was quite crazy to say the least.
