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.
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Cast
16 people
Diana DeLaCruz
Beatriz Valdes
Known for
Lucy in the Sky
Steven Rattazzi
James W. Fay
Known for
The Venture Bros.
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
Alison Cimmet
Lois Grenadine
Known for
The Wrath of Becky
Adebowale Adebiyi
Construction worker
No other roles listed
Aaron Kingsley Adetola
Child
Known for
A Thousand and One
Manuel Cabrero
Subway rider
Known for
Extrapolations
Eli Lehan Dew
James Agee as a child
No other roles listed
Steve Espinola
News photographer
No other roles listed
Steve French
Chaplin (voice)
Known for
The Final Girls
Marcel McAlpin
Child
No other roles listed
Cameron Pow
George La Monte
Also in
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OM CITY
Rebecca Rivera
Subway rider
Zoe Beloff Director · James Agee Writer Eric Muzzy Editor
United States release May 9, 2022 · Produced in United States
Production
Besties Make Movies, LLC
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · August 4, 2021
Premiere · National Gallery of Art
United States · May 9, 2022
Digital · Experiments in Cinema
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