Kill the Poor (2003)
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
- Date of release
- 2003-05-09
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Alan Taylor
Casting
- Clara Bellar — Annabelle Peltz
- Heather Burns — Scarlet
- Jon Budinoff — Segundo Dejesus
- Paul Calderon — Carlos DeJesus
- Lawrence Gilliard Jr. — Spike
- Cliff Gorman — Yakov
- David Krumholtz — Joe Peltz
- Chuck Low — Bruno
- Maryfrances Careccia — Rose
- Chris Hutchison — Joel
- Julianna DeDonno — Constance, Toddler
- Annie Crean — Constance, Six Months
Interesting facts
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".
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