The Tramp's New World

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Diana DeLaCruz Beatriz Valdes

Steven Rattazzi James W. Fay

Alison Cimmet Lois Grenadine

Adebowale Adebiyi Construction worker

Aaron Kingsley Adetola Child