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Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr.
Born 4 April 1965, in New York.

Wise words: "I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess."



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Robert Downey Jr. - news / articles


  • Robert Downey Jr. injured on Iron Man 3 set - 16 August 2012
    -Actor Robert Downey Jr. is nursing an ankle injury after a stunt went wrong on the set of Iron Man 3.-The action man has been filming scenes for the upcoming sequel, but production on the blockbuster has now been delayed to allow him time to recover from an accident.- A


  • Robert Downey Jr. surprises young Comic-Con fans at costume contest - 15 July 2012
    -Robert Downey Jr. thrilled young fans at California's Comic-Con event on Saturday (14Jul12) by appearing at an Iron Man costume contest.-The actor was at the San Diego convention to discuss next year's (13) Iron Man 3, but he took time out from his busy schedule to surpri


  • Sick Downey Jr. halts Sherlock Holmes filming - 7 October 2010
    -Filming on the Sherlock Holmes sequel was halted earlier this week (begs04Oct10) after Robert Downey Jr. fell ill, according to a new report.- -The actor is currently filming the follow-up to Guy Ritchie's 2009 film in London, but he pulled out of the shoot on Tuesday (05

Robert Downey Jr. - what members say


  • Chaplin
  • Chaplin review by from WHITSTABLE
    Rated - 3.0 stars 19 August 2004
    ...and interesting story about Charlie Chaplain. Marvellously played by the lovely Robert Downey Jr. with a special appearance of Charlie Chaplains' real Granddaughter. Although, t...   Read customer review
  • Heart And Souls
  • Heart And Souls review by A customer from wiltshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Tears of joy! 24 November 2007
    ...o what you have to before it's too late. The other thing I didn't remember was Robert Downey Jr. Crumbs he is a fantastic actor! I wish he hadn't spent so much time in rehab ...   Read customer review
  • Iron Man
  • Iron Man review by canopus from Leicester
    Rated - 1.0 stars Good CGI but lousy story line 4 May 2008
    ...ent. How unfortunate. I found only two good aspects to this film. The CGI and Robert Downey Jr. He portrayed himself very well as Tony Stark, as an arrogant, womanising, gold...   Read customer review

Robert Downey Jr. - filmography


  • Avengers Assemble on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr.,  Scarlett Johansson,  Chris Hemsworth
    Director: Joss Whedon
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Nick Fury is director of S.H.I.E.L.D, an international peace keeping agency. The agency is a who's who of Marvel Super Heroes, with Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When global security is threatened by Loki and his cohorts, Nick Fury and his team will ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 23,247 members
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  • Iron Man 2 on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr.,  Gwyneth Paltrow,  Scarlett Johansson
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) faces pressure from the government, the press, and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, along with Pepper ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 55,499 members
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  • Due Date - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Matt Walsh,  James Martin Kelly,  Michelle Monaghan
    Director: Todd Phillips
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Todd Phillips directs this road trip comedy starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. Businessman Peter Highman (Downey Jr.) is an anxiously expectant first-time father whose wife's due date is only five days away. As Peter rushes to catch a flight home to Los Angeles from Atlanta to be ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 16,022 members
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  • Due Date on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Zach Galifianakis,  Robert Downey Jr.,  Juliette Lewis
    Director: Todd Phillips
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Peter Highman is an expectant first-time father whose wife's due date is only days away. As he hurries to catch a flight home to Los Angeles from Atlanta to be at her side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when a chance encounter with aspiring actor and disaster-magnet Ethan ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 43,077 members
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  • The Soloist on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Jamie Foxx,  Robert Downey Jr.,  Catherine Keener
    Director: Joe Wright
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Columnist Steve Lopez is at a dead end. The newspaper business is in an uproar, his marriage to a fellow journalist has fallen apart and he can't entirely remember what he loved about his job in the first place. Then, one day, while walking through Los Angeles' Skid Row, he sees the mysterious ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,912 member
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  • Sherlock Holmes on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Eddie Marsan,  Mark Strong,  Kelly Reilly
    Director: Guy Ritchie
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    The great Victorian detective returns in this action thriller directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr (in a Golden Globe-winning performance), Jude Law, Rachel McAdams and Mark Strong. Based on a new story by producer Lionel Wigram using Arthur Conan Doyle's famous characters, the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 82,176 members
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  • Tropic Thunder - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Jack Black,  Steve Coogan,  Ben Stiller
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ben Stiller writes, directs and stars in this film-within-a-film action comedy. During the filming of a big-budget Vietnam epic, the self-absorbed stars signed up to the project behave unreasonably, resulting in a four million dollar explosion going off with no cameras shooting - and rendering the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 14,009 members
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  • Iron Man - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Shaun Toub,  Samuel L. Jackson,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Big screen adaptation of the popular Marvel superhero comic. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) is the billionaire owner of Stark Industries, a corporation that specialises in weapons development. When Tony is kidnapped by terrorists in Afghanistan, he is made to construct a devastating weapon. Instead, ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 18,987 members
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  • Tropic Thunder on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ben Stiller,  Robert Downey Jr.,  Trieu Tran
    Director: Ben Stiller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ben Stiller. Jack Black. Robert Downey, Jr. Comedy fans can start drooling immediately at the thought of these three funnymen joining forces in TROPIC THUNDER. The men star as a trio of actors whose filming experience in southeast Asia gets a little too real as they must become as tough as the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 73,427 members
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  • Iron Man on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr.,  Terrence Howard,  Gwyneth Paltrow
    Director: Jon Favreau
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Iron Man tells the story of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), the enigmatic heir to the Stark Enterprises fortune. A driven inventor and executive who seems to have it all, Tony is haunted by his dark side. Though he commands his empire by day, by night he secretly becomes Iron Man, the living ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 96,713 members
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  • Charlie Bartlett on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Anton Yelchin,  Robert Downey Jr.,  Hope Davis
    Director: Jon Poll
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) is failing miserably at fitting in at a new public high school run by the world-weary Principal Gardner (Robert Downey Jr.). As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability positions him as the resident "..read more »
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  • A Scanner Darkly on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Keanu Reeves,  Winona Ryder,  Woody Harrelson
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Thriller based on the novel by Philip K. Dick. The war on drugs has been lost, and when a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on those he is closest to, the toll that the mission takes on his sanity is too great to comprehend. Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) is a narcotics officer who is issued an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 25,286 members
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  • The Shaggy Dog on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Philip Baker Hall,  Danny Glover,  Spencer Breslin
    Director: Brian Robbins
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Comedy in which Tim Allen transforms from family dad to family dog. It all begins when workaholic Deputy D.A. Dave Douglas (Allen) takes on a case involving an animal laboratory - one that will take him away yet again from his wife, Rebecca (Kristin Davis) and kids, Carly (Zena Grey) and Josh (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 9,723 members
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  • Game 6 (2005)
    Starring: Michael Keaton,  Catherine O'Hara,  Griffin Dunne
    Director: Michael Hoffman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Combining real and fictional events, Game 6 centers around the historic 1986 World Series and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 6 members
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  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Corbin Bernsen,  Val Kilmer,  Mary Castro
    Director: Shane Black
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Comedy starring Robert Downey Jr. Harry Lockhart (Downey Jr.) is basically a decent guy. Sure, he's a petty thief who skates through life on a shaky cocktail of dog-eared charm and cockeyed optimism, but he wants to do the right thing. He just doesn't know how, exactly. Harry's perpetual bad luck ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,264 members
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  • Good Night And Good Luck on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Patricia Clarkson,  Alex Borstein,  Rose Abdoo
    Director: George Clooney
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Oscar nominated drama directed by, written by and starring George Clooney. The year is 1953, television is still in its infancy and the esteemed broadcast journalist, Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn), anchors the popular news documentary show, 'See it Now', on CBS. Murrow, alongside producer ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 41,966 members
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  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Corbin Bernsen,  Val Kilmer,  Mary Castro
    Director: Shane Black
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Comedy starring Robert Downey Jr. Harry Lockhart (Downey Jr.) is basically a decent guy. Sure, he's a petty thief who skates through life on a shaky cocktail of dog-eared charm and cockeyed optimism, but he wants to do the right thing. He just doesn't know how, exactly. Harry's perpetual bad luck ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 51,520 members
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  • Mussolini - The Untold Story (2 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Lee Grant,  David Suchet,  Raul Julia
    Director: William A. Graham
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Made-for-television miniseries about the life of the Italian Fascist dictator, played by George C. Scott, and based on the memoirs of Mussolini's son. Opening in 1922, Mussolini marches on Rome at the head of his Blackshirt militia, seizes power and begins colonial expansion in Africa. Over the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 159 members
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  • Gothika - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: John Carroll Lynch,  Bernard Hill,  Penelope Cruz
    Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Psychological thriller starring Halle Berry as Dr Miranda Grey, a criminal psychologist who awakens to find that she is a patient in the very institute where she formerly worked, with no memory of committing the murder of her husband and colleague, Dr Doug Grey (Charles S Dutton) of which she finds ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,140 members
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  • Gothika (2003)
    Starring: John Carroll Lynch,  Bernard Hill,  Penelope Cruz
    Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Psychological thriller starring Halle Berry as Dr Miranda Grey, a criminal psychologist who awakens to find that she is a patient in the very institute where she formerly worked, with no memory of committing the murder of her husband and colleague, Dr Doug Grey (Charles S Dutton) of which she finds ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 34,389 members
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  • The Singing Detective on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Katie Holmes,  Jeremy Northam,  Robert Downey Jr.
    Director: Keith Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The big-screen version of Dennis Potter's dark, claustrophobic comedy. Robert Downey Jr stars as Dan Dark, the psoriasis-ridden writer confined to a hospital bed. Desperately uncomfortable, feverish and increasingly paranoid, he begins to rework his first novel in his mind. Over time he works ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 3,137 members
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  • Wonder Boys on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Katie Holmes,  Alan Tudyk,  Rip Torn
    Director: Curtis Hanson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Michael Douglas is Grady Tripp, a college professor and award-winning novelist whose latest book is seven years overdue. Among his current crop of students is James Leer (Tobey Maguire), a highly-talented young writer who, at a party held during the college's annual literary festival, accidentally ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 10,842 members
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  • Bowfinger on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Terence Stamp,  Christine Baranski,  Steve Martin
    Director: Frank Oz
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) is Hollywood's least successful director. He figures that the only way to boost his flagging reputation is to make a film with megastar Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy). However, the only way to get Kit into the movie is to film him surreptitiously, while actors approach him ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 5,197 members
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  • In Dreams on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Aidan Quinn,  Paul Guilfoyle,  Stephen Rea
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Annette Bening plays Claire Cooper, a woman whose idyllic New England existence is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious and psychotic serial killer (Robert Downey Jr.). Not only does the murderer wreak havoc upon the community, but he also starts to appear in Claire's dreams, leaving clues as ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 1,033 member
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  • Black And White on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Ben Stiller,  Method Man
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    When high school hipster Charlie and her friends start hanging out with Harlem's aspiring rap artist Rich Bower and his group, the American Cream Team, each faction starts to ponder the other's true motivation. Fascinated by this collision of cultures, documentary filmmaker and former rich girl ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 952 members
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  • U.S. Marshals on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Tommy Lee Jones,  Robert Downey Jr.,  Joe Pantoliano
    Director: Stuart Baird
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Sequel to 'The Fugitive' sees Tommy Lee Jones reprising his role as US Marshal Sam Gerrard. Here he is on the look out for a mysterious assassin (Wesley Snipes), on the run after trying to find out who implicated him in two murders. Gerrard and his team are joined by an arrogant government agent (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 12,589 members
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  • The Gingerbread Man on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Wren Arthur,  Gregory Alpert,  Troy Beyer
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    After having a one-night stand with waitress Mallory Doss (Embeth Davidtz), attorney Rick Magruder (Kenneth Branagh) discovers that she is being stalked by her cult leader father, Dixon (Robert Duvall). Magruder has Dixon arrested and put on trial, but, as events take a disastrous turn, the lawyer ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 868 members
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  • One Night Stand on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Nastassja Kinski,  Kyle MacLachlan,  Robert Downey Jr.
    Director: Mike Figgis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Commercial director Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) is on a business trip to New York when he meets Karen (Nastassja Kinski). Although both are married, they cannot resist their mutual attraction, and end up spending a night of passion together. Mike returns to his wife and two children, but becomes ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 641 members
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  • Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
    Starring: Natasha Gregson Wagner,  Heather Graham,  Robert Downey Jr.
    Director: James Toback
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
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    They're as different as they are beautiful, but Carla and Lou have more in common than meets the eye. Each thinks she has the world's greatest boyfriend - until they both realise they are talking about the same guy! Sparks fly when girls discover Blake's deception and team up to confront their ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 192 members
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  • Pool Girl (1997)
    Starring: Malcolm McDowell,  Alyssa Milano,  Sean Penn
    Director: Robert Downey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hugo Dugay (Alyssa Milano) is a lonely pool cleaner who has to deal with the bullying and eccentricities of her customers who range from a film director to someone trapped in a wheelchair by ALS (Lou Gaehrig's Disease).
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 328 members
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  • Richard III (1995)
    Starring: Nigel Hawthorne,  Kristin Scott-Thomas,  Jim Broadbent
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Sir Ian McKellen takes the title role in this updated version of Shakespeare's play, based on Richard Eyre's acclaimed theatrical production. After a blood-soaked civil war in 1930s London, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, lays claim to the English throne. The deformed monarch-apparent uses all his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,226 members
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  • Only You on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Joaquim De Almeida,  Bonnie Hunt,  Marisa Tomei
    Director: Norman Jewison
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Marisa Tomei stars as Faith, a woman obsessed, thanks to a fortune teller's prediction, with marrying a man by the name of Damon Bradley. Following a slim lead, she flies off to Italy on the trail of her destiny. Once there she meets a charming stranger (Robert Downey Jr) who pretends to be the man ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 5,739 members
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  • Natural Born Killers on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Woody Harrelson,  Balthazar Getty,  Tommy Lee Jones
    Director: Oliver Stone
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A frenetic, bloody look at mass murder and the mass media, director Oliver Stone's extremely controversial film divided critics and audiences with its mixture of over-the-top violence and bitter cultural satire. At the center of the film, written by Stone and Quentin Tarantino, among others, are ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 13,805 members
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  • Short Cuts on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Andie MacDowell,  Matthew Modine,  Tom Waits
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,924 members
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  • Heart And Souls on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Elisabeth Shue,  Kyra Sedgwick,  Robert Downey Jr.
    Director: Ron Underwood
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ghostly comedy from the director of 'City Slickers', Ron Underwood. Four people are killed in a bus crash at exactly the same time Thomas is born. It transpires that he can see and hear the four ghosts and not only this, they have decided to tidy up the loose ends of their lives through him. One of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 629 members
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  • Chaplin on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Paul Rhys,  Diane Lane,  David Duchovny
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robert Downey Jr takes the lead role in this biopic of the legendary Charlie Chaplin, which traces his entire career from poverty stricken childhood all the way through to final Swiss exile and lifetime Oscar recognition. Along the way there were four marriages, troubles with the US government, and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 4,341 members
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  • Chaplin - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Paul Rhys,  Diane Lane,  David Duchovny
    Director: Richard Attenborough
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Robert Downey Jr takes the lead role in this biopic of the legendary Charlie Chaplin, which traces his entire career from poverty stricken childhood all the way through to final Swiss exile and lifetime Oscar recognition. Along the way there were four marriages, troubles with the US government, and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 339 members
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  • Soapdish (1991)
    Starring: Elisabeth Shue,  Cathy Moriarty,  Sally Field
    Director: Michael Hoffman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A spoof on American daytime soap operas and the off-screen machinations of its stars. Sally Field plays a popular character who becomes the target of a jealous co-star and scriptwriter. When a storyline in which her character kills a homeless person fails to dent her popularity, they bring back a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 962 members
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  • Too Much Sun (1990)
    Starring: Allan Arbus,  Ralph Macchio,  Howard Duff
    Director: Robert Downey Sr.
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one of them produces him a grandchild within a year of his death.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 31 members
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  • Air America on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Nancy Travis,  Lane Smith,  David Marshall Grant
    Director: Roger Spottiswoode
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mel Gibson plays veteran pilot Gene Ryack, hired by the CIA to smuggle supplies to the indigenous forces. He is also running guns on the side for personal profit. All his plans are thrown into chaos, however, by the arrival of maverick young pilot Billy Covington (Robert Downey Jr), who has just ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 4,581 members
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  • True Believer on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Kurtwood Smith,  Yuji Okumoto,  James Woods
    Director: Joseph Ruben
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Disillusioned lawyer Eddie Dodd (James Woods) used to be a high flyer, but has spent the last ten years defending drug dealers. When idealistic graduate Roger Baron (Robert Downey Jr) becomes Dodd's apprentice, he inspires his reluctant boss to accept the case of a young Korean boy who has been ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 187 members
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  • Chances Are on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Cybill Shepherd,  Mary Stuart Masterson,  Josef Sommer
    Director: Emile Ardolino
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Alex Finch (Robert Downey Jr) is a young man with a past, trouble is, it's not his own. He has just realised that he is the reincarnation of a man who died in a mysterious car crash back in 1966, and to make matters worse, he finds that his girlfriend's mother was once his wife. Also starring Ryan ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,013 member
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  • 1969 (1988)
    Starring: Winona Ryder,  Joanna Cassidy,  Robert Downey Jr.
    Director: Ernest Thompson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ralph (Robert Downey Jnr) and Scott (Keifer Sutherland) are college buddies both opposed to the Vietnam war and conscription. They inevitably clash with their parents over the issue, eventually receiving support from their mothers. With Bruce Dern and Winona Ryder.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 510 members
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  • Less Than Zero on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Andrew McCarthy,  Tony Bill,  Jami Gertz
    Director: Marek Kanievska
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Clay (Andrew McCarthy) arrives home from college for Christmas in Los Angeles. His ex-girlfriend (Jami Gertz) wants Clay to save their friend Julian (Robert Downey Jr) from his ever-worsening drug addiction and its attendant debts. Clay does his best to undo the damage, but realises along the way ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,478 member
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  • Johnny Be Good on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  Paul Gleason,  Anthony Michael Hall
    Director: Bud Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Johnny Walker (Anthony Michael Hall) is the star athlete every U.S college wants on their football team, and those colleges are prepared to offer him all kinds of bribes - free cash, fast cars, beautiful girls, and wine aplenty - to get him to sign on the dotted line. But while he enjoys all the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 269 members
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  • Danger Zone on DVD
    Starring: Billy Zane,  Robert Downey Jr.
    Director: Allan Eastman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
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    'The Peacekeeper' is a political thriller threatning the US. 'Danger Zone' - An American mining engineer gets involved in civil war and international conspiracy in one African country. NOTE: THIS IS A DOUBLE-SIDED DVD, FLIP OVER TO VIEW THE SECOND FILM
    2 stars out of 5 45% from 92 members
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Robert Downey Jr. facts

5 most recent films

Iron Man 3 - 4.0 stars
Avengers Assemble - 3D Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Avengers Assemble - 4.0 stars
Avengers Assemble - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Iron Man 3 - 4.0 stars
Avengers Assemble - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Avengers Assemble - 4.0 stars
Iron Man - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Iron Man - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Too Much Sun - 2.0 stars
Game 6 - 2.5 stars
The Outsider - A Film About James Toback - 3.0 stars
Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam - 4.5 stars
The Singing Detective - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gwyneth Paltrow - 12 times - show films
Samuel L. Jackson - 11 times - show films
Don Cheadle - 7 times - show films
Woody Harrelson - 7 times - show films
Eddie Marsan - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Jon Favreau - 9 times - show films
Guy Ritchie - 8 times - show films
James Toback - 5 times - show films
Shane Black - 5 times - show films
Joss Whedon - 4 times - show films