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.
Director and cast
- Diana DeLaCruz as Beatriz Valdes
- Steven Rattazzi as James W. Fay
- Alison Cimmet as Lois Grenadine
- Adebowale Adebiyi as Construction worker
- Aaron Kingsley Adetola as Child
- Manuel Cabrero as Subway rider
- Eli Lehan Dew as James Agee as a child
- Steve Espinola as News photographer
- Steve French as Chaplin (voice)
- Marcel McAlpin as Child
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