Overview

In 1948 the James Agee wrote a scenario for his lifelong hero, Charlie Chaplin. Deeply disturbed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Agee imagined New York destroyed. In the ruins, Chaplin's Little Tramp builds a shack in Central Park. Gradually a small community of the dispossessed grows up around him. For Agee, his story was a thought experiment about how one might start again in the aftermath of disaster, to go beyond capitalism and just how hard that is in the face of our modern technological world. The film focuses on his imaginative journey and what it might mean for us today.

Top Cast

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Diana DeLaCruz

Beatriz Valdes

Steven Rattazzi

James W. Fay

Alison Cimmet

Lois Grenadine

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Adebowale Adebiyi

Construction worker

Aaron Kingsley Adetola

Child

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Manuel Cabrero

Subway rider

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Eli Lehan Dew

James Agee as a child

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Steve Espinola

News photographer

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Steve French

Chaplin (voice)

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Marcel McAlpin

Child

Cameron Pow

George La Monte

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Rebecca Rivera

Subway rider