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There were three remakes of various kinds:Sidewalk Stories (1989), African-American director/actor Charles Lane's Chaplinesque black and white, low-budget, nearly silent version ofThe Kid, updated to 1980s New York (with a black father figure - a poor street artist, and orphaned female toddler - Lane's 2-year-old daughter Nicole Alysia)Big Daddy (1999), a severely-criticized Adam Sandler film (Sandler received the Worst Actor 'Golden Raspberry' Award), although some reviewers found it amusing (at the Kids' Choice Awards in 2000, it won Favorite Movie and Favorite Movie Actor)The Kid (2015),a faithful modernized remake of the film released by actor/writer/director David Scott Heck - a version that was carefully constructed and filmed to eliminate inconsistencies, errors, and plot holesJackie Coogan's father Jack Coogan, Sr.B.Sweeney) were suspended for life from he game by the CommissionerMajor League (1989), writer/director David S.All fourteen pieces...the court jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana...The waiter, a Czarist spy, hurriedly leaves the room and the Hotel Clarence.He steps into a taxi and asks for "Eight Rue de Chalon." The next scene is introduced by the exterior house number - 8 - the luxurious residence on Rue de Chalon of the former owner of the 'legally confiscated' jewels - the ultra-sophisticated Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire, former wife of actor John Gilbert, who reportedly had an affair with Garbo in the 20s), who now lives in exile in the French capital.Plot SynopsisThe film opens, with one of its few color scenes, with a closeup of a hand lighting votive candles with a match in a pre-war Polish Jewish family's home on a Friday night Sabbath.