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.
Directed by Zoe Beloff
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Cast
Diana DeLaCruz
Beatriz Valdes
Steven Rattazzi
James W. Fay
Alison Cimmet
Lois Grenadine
Adebowale Adebiyi
Construction worker
Aaron Kingsley Adetola
Child
Manuel Cabrero
Subway rider
Eli Lehan Dew
James Agee as a child
Steve Espinola
News photographer
Steve French
Chaplin (voice)
Marcel McAlpin
Child
Cameron Pow
George La Monte
Rebecca Rivera
Subway rider
Gunnar Theel
News cameraman
Anju Vallares
Child
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