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High Octane Pictures diabolical dark comedy “Stealing Chaplin,” is available for audiences on all Tvod/Digital platforms and on DVD across the North American continent now. “Stealing Chaplin” is quirky but captivating, and a performance driven wickedly eccentric comedic ride from prolific British director Paul Tanter (“The Nights Before Christmas,” “Dystopia,” and “Kill Ratio,” among other …

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The 1978 theft of Charlie Chaplin’s coffin from its rural Swiss resting place was the kind of bizarre case — equal parts absurd caper and poignant story of human desperation, escalating wildly and ending with peace restored — that you’d expect to have been the subject of at least one hefty true-crime movie. Instead, it seems to keep inspiring curious sideways riffs on history.

In 2014, French auteur Xavier Beauvois heavily fictionalized the identities and motives of the grave-robbers for his sweetly mournful “The Price of Fame,” attempting to channel some of Chaplin’s sentimental underdog spirit in lieu of factual fidelity. Yet that film was a veritable documentary compared to “Stealing Chaplin,” a broad, shaggy farce with an opening title card that claims “inspired by a true story” credentials, and a title that represents the full extent of that inspiration.

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