THE TENANTS is based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Bernard Malamud, whose other adapted works into film include THE FIXER and THE NATURAL. A socio-political piece set in an abandoned New York apartment building in the early 1970s, It is the story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves in down the hall. The film stars Dylan mcdermott, Snoop Dogg, Rose Byrne and Seymour Cassel and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, 2005. THE TENANTS is the story of two writers, the Lesser, Jewish-American, and Willie, African-American. The setting is an abandoned New York tenement in 1972. The last remaining tenant, Lesser works on his novel about the possibility of love. He befriends Willie, an illegal squatter, in the building and tries to help him with his writing. Their first argument occurs when Lesser criticizes Willie's immature and "black" writing style. Lesser meets Willie's white girlfriend Irene. The two fall in love and Irene leaves Willie. In revenge, Willie burns the only manuscript of Lesser's novel that has taken almost ten years to write. There is then a climactic life-and-death struggle, carried out with raw violence, between Lesser and Willie. As our story ends, in the words of Malamud, "Each, thought the writer, feels the other's anguish" is the last line of Lesser's novel. and the meaning is clear – communication and cooperation between the races has failed.
The Tenants Movie Trailer
On February - 12 - 2010
I love the theme of this movie
Has anyone noticed that at some point in the movie Dylan McDermott’s eye color changes? I think it’s when he’s on the subway. He probably forgot to put on his color contacts. I just thought it was funny.
snoop dog indie film debut?
attn: all writers world-wide
I want to know when is Dan Brown going to work
with Jeff Fisher and Jane Bowell since the Davinci Code is true.
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I got an email from a man named Richard Saskle.
Right on, I saw half yesterday and today. It is sad!
i saw this movie at yesterday`s night , i loved it,but the ending is sad
Dylan Mcdermont is the shit he should do more movie and leave tv alone
SNOOP DOGG???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the movie teeters on, well, corny in parts, but still, its good. the book is much more multi-dimensional; kind of hallucinatory.
Ive appreciated him for some time…
no its not it came out in 2006 go to wikipedia
ja hvem har sett den?! den ser sugen ut da
Bernard Malamud is a great underappreciated American novelist of second half of the twentieth century.
Itzik Basman
er der nogen der ha rset den? er den god? den ser ikke allerbedst ud…
er der nogen der ha rset den? er den god? den ser ikke allerbedst ud…
try 2006, mr reels
yalls dumb this movie is atleast 30 years old, 1976 lol so dont wait in line for this one
hey..
well, I hadn´t seen it yet, but my friend did and she said, it is so boring!
I wouldn´t buy it, borrow it!
Can’t wait to see it.
Cool. I love the trailer. I think I’m ganna watch this one. Hell yeah I really will. ^^, so… when will this be shown in theater? I hope the movie is as good as its trailer. *_*
I want this film!! When is it available??