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.
Barrett Martin
as James Agee
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
Cameron Pow
as George La Monte
