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The Chaperone
Directed by
Michael Engler
Not Rated
2019
1h 43m
Drama
6.6
48%
72%
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In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City.
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Cast of The Chaperone
Elizabeth McGovern
Norma / Producer
Haley Lu Richardson
Louise Brooks
Victoria Hill
Myra Brooks / Producer
Campbell Scott
Alan Carlisle
Géza Röhrig
Joseph
Blythe Danner
Mary O'Dell
Miranda Otto
Ruth St. Dennis
Kate Grimes
Ms. Burton
Matt McGrath
Raymond
Andrew Burnap
Floyd
Bill Hoag
Jack
Tyler Weaks
Howard Carlisle
Ellen Toland
Greta
Robert Fairchild
Ted Shawn
Sean Hudock
Norman Ross
Steve Garfanti
Cafe Patron
George Hampe
Earl Carlisle
Ruben Navarro
Train Station Father
Kate Abbruzzese
Gypsy Woman
Daphne Gaines
Della
Vinson German
Music Hall Man
Susan J. Jacks
Nun on Train
Noelle Cappuzzo
Student Dancer
Daisy Pugh-Weiss
Young Greta
Jonathan Walker
Leonard Brooks
Stan Demidoff
Flower Seller
Cilda Shaur
Second Woman
Craig Geraghty
Taxi Driver
McLean Peterson
Walker
Collin Jeffery
Martin
Michael Engler
Director
Laura Moriarty
Writer
Julian Fellowes
Writer
Greg Clark
Producer
Luca Scalisi
Producer
Rose Ganguzza
Producer
Kelly Carmichael
Producer
The Chaperone Ratings & Reviews
eif999
January 26, 2025
A slight movie but some interesting performances. Enjoyed it
Newsday
Verne Gay
If "The Chaperone" accomplishes anything, that will be to send viewers scrambling to Google to learn more about this extraordinary woman.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
I'm not an Elizabeth McGovern completist, but it may be the best thing she's ever done.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Lael Loewenstein
It never really comes alive.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
"The Chaperone" is like telling the Tiger Woods story by choosing to focus on his first caddy. Sure, it's a way in, but unless that caddy has a really good story, what are we doing here?
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Between the speakeasies, the orphanages, the sexual energy, and the general air of corset-loosening, the movie should throb and thrum. It doesn't.
AARP Movies for Grownups
Thelma Adams
The focus isn't on the bratty flapper but McGovern's character's hesitant, poignant attempt to find out what she wants to be when she grows up, in a time and place where nobody wants her to be much of anything at all.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Despite the best efforts of McGovern et al., The Chaperone is lightweight trifle.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Because The Chaperone's second fiddle doesn't soak up the spotlight as readily as its star, the film leaves the viewer with an unsatisfied longing for more Brooks.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
The film has a sedate TV-movie quality, unbefitting of the roaring era and its It Girl.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The movie does have an intelligent TV feel in its technique, with its focus on actors' faces and on acting moments that can be easily seen, even on a small screen.
Washington Post
Pat Padua
Yet despite the stirring performance at its heart, the movie is ultimately too restricted by its own dramatic conventions, and it only seldom comes to life.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Self-actualization may be essential for people, but it doesn't always make for the best of drama.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
It's a small-scale movie, and no harm in that, but it's tidy and stagy in a fusty middlebrow way.
Observer
Rex Reed
A film of uncommon rapture, albeit one with little of the noisy, fast-moving action contemporary audiences have come to expect.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Fagerholm
What makes Engler's film worth a look, apart from its two leading ladies, is how it manages to make a tale set nearly a century ago feel oddly timely.
IndieWire
Kate Erbland
If it's too much to ask for a Richardson-starring Louise Brooks biopic, is it then too much ask for a true two-hander in which she and McGovern actually share the screen? Apparently, and sadly, yes.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
While Norma awakens to fresh possibilities, her story remains a snooze.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Though Richardson is a delight, her verve and sexual confidence only highlight the dreariness around her. A light goes out whenever she's offscreen.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
It's little more than a handsome snooze that even the Masterpiece Theatre crowd may find a bit too snoozy.
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