The Kid is a film starting Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan and it's about Chaplin finding an abandoned baby and decide to raise him and love him like a father, and it's a great film, because this is the first time where a comedy film is also a serious and dramatic film as well.
Before this film, most comedy films were just silly slapstick and people doing stupid stuff to make an audience laugh, but this film was not only supposed to make people laugh, but to make people cry as well. Now Charlie has had sort of sad moments before, but they were usually short, this one actually had a problem and a sort of action that's actual important to the story, such as the scene where Charlie tries to save his son from being taken away by agents from the orphanages. That was one of the most sad, but also funny moments that the movie offers.
The film got its inspiration from an event that happened in Charlie's life. The event that happened was the death of his very young son. Chaplin's son was just a baby and he was just ten days old when he passed away. Which some people believed that Charlie's relationship with the kid Jackie, both in the film and in real life was really real, because of the fact that Charlie never got to be the father for his own son and he started treating the little kid as if he was really his own son.
So when the film was released, it was met with a ton of praise for how funny and charming this film was. This film proved that you can turn a serious type of film and still make it funny if you have the right mind and idea for it. It was the second highest grossing film of that year, earning about $5,450,000 national and it's still one of Chaplin's best works to this day and one of the best silent films ever and a little fun fact, the kid Jackie Coogan would later star in many other films, and he would later play Uncle Fester in the 1960's Adams Family.
