The Tramp's New World

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.

• Release date
• August 4, 2021
• Runtime
• 62 min
• Genres
• Science Fiction, History, Drama, Animation
• Director
• Zoe Beloff

Cast

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Diana DeLaCruz Beatriz Valdes Steven Rattazzi James W. Fay Alison Cimmet Lois Grenadine

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Adebowale Adebiyi Construction worker Aaron Kingsley Adetola Child

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Manuel Cabrero Subway rider

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Eli Lehan Dew James Agee as a child

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Steve Espinola News photographer