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.
CAST
Diana DeLaCruzBeatriz Valdes
Adebowale AdebiyiConstruction worker
Manuel CabreroSubway rider
Eli Lehan DewJames Agee as a child
Steve EspinolaNews photographer
Steve FrenchChaplin (voice)
Marcel McAlpinChild
Rebecca RiveraSubway rider
Gunnar TheelNews cameraman
Anju VallaresChild
Sky VegaChild
