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.
as Beatriz Valdes
as James W. Fay
as Lois Grenadine
as Construction worker
as Child
as Subway rider
as James Agee as a child
as News photographer
as Chaplin (voice)
as Child
as George La Monte
as Subway rider
as News cameraman
as Child
as Child
as James Agee
