The Tenants (2005 film)
Appearance
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The Tenants | |
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Directed by | Danny Green |
Written by | David Diamond Danny Green (adaptation) Bernard Malamud (novel) |
Produced by | Chris Bongirne |
Starring | Snoop Dogg Dylan McDermott Rose Byrne |
Cinematography | David Dubois |
Edited by | Michael J. Duthie |
Music by | Leigh Gorman Coati Mundi |
Distributed by | Millennium Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Tenants is a 2005 film drama directed by Danny Green and starring Dylan McDermott and Snoop Dogg. It is based on the 1971 novel The Tenants by Bernard Malamud.
Premise
[edit]In an abandoned tenement, a militant African-American writer and a Jewish novelist develop a friendship while struggling to complete their novels before the landlord forceably evicts them, but interpersonal tensions rise between the tenants and escalate into violence.[1]
Cast
[edit]- Dylan McDermott as Harry Lesser
- Snoop Dogg as Willie Spearmint
- Rose Byrne as Irene Bell
- Seymour Cassel as Levenspiel
- Niki J. Crawford as Mary Kettlesmith
- Aldis Hodge as Sam Clemence
- Gene Gilbert as Mr. Ross
- Linda Lawson as Anna
References
[edit]- ^ "The Tenants - Review - Movies - New York Times". movies2.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
External links
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