Name: Stealing Chaplin
Director: Paul Tanter
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 2020-10-16
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 4
Cast: Simon Phillips, Doug Phillips, Bianca Katz, Al Sapienza, Peter Woodward

Two dimwit brothers rob a corpse. What could possibly go wrong? (Everything. Everything goes wrong.)

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Overview

Drama Crime

Two brothers steal Charlie Chaplin's body and hold it to ransom.

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Standout Aspects

Acting

Simon and Doug Phillips commit to magnificent idiocy.

Writing

Dialogue that somehow respects and mocks true crime.

Best for:Streaming·Friends·Solo

Heads up:Emotional

Director

Paul Tanter

ReleasedOct 16, 2020

Runtime1h 45m

StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacesteady

Intensitymedium

Tonemixed

Feelmedium

Top Cast

Simon Phillips

Cal

Al Sapienza

Billy

Peter Woodward

Hynkel

Anne-Carolyne Binette

Lakshmi

Cheryl Prater

Stapleton

Wayne Newton

Himself

Tom Delahunty

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Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Trivia

The actual 1978 Chaplin body snatching involved a Bulgarian refugee and a Pole; the ransom note misspelled 'corpse' as 'corpes.'

Insight

Director Paul Tanter specializes in British crime capers so niche they feel like fever dreams—this is his most historically grounded, which says everything.