Kill the Poor (2003)
1h 25m
Running Time
May 9, 2003Release Date
Plot.
When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float
Where to Watch.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Clara Bellar
Annabelle
Jon Budinoff
Segundo
Heather Burns
Scarlet
Paul Calderon
Carlos
Maryfrances Careccia
Rose
David Krumholtz
Joe Peltz
Annie Crean
Constance (Six Months)
Julianna DeDonno
Constance (Toddler)
Chuck Low
Bruno
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
Spike
Cliff Gorman
Yakov
Chris Hutchison
Joel
Alan Taylor
Director
Victor Pagan
Attila
Joel Rose
Writer
Daniel Handler
Writer
Otto Sanchez
Negrito
Alexis Alexanian
Producer
Jamie Tirelli
Beneficio
Ginger Taylor
Constance, Newborn
Ruth Charny
Producer
Lianne Halfon
Producer
Angel Santiago
Friend of Segundo
Millie Tirelli
Beneficia
Details.
Wiki.
Kill the Poor is a 2003 American drama film directed by Alan Taylor from a screenplay by Daniel Handler, based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Joel Rose. The film is set in Manhattan's Alphabet City in the early 1980s, when the neighborhood was a center of illegal drug activity. The film's title is inspired by the Dead Kennedys' song "Kill the Poor".
Kill the Poor premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 9, 2003, and received a limited theatrical release in the United States on January 6, 2006, by IFC Films. It received mixed reviews from critics.