Kill the Poor (film)

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Kill the Poor
Directed by	Alan Taylor
Produced by	Ruth Charny Lianne Halfon Russell Smith John Malkovich Gary Winick Alexis Alexnian
Written by	Daniel Handler
Starring	David Krumholtz Clara Bellar Paul Calderon Jon Budinoff Cliff Gorman Damian Young Heather Burns Otto Sanchez Zak Orth Larry Gilliard Jr.
Distributed by	IFC Films
Release date(s)	January 6, 2006
Running time	85 min
Language	English
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Kill the Poor is director Alan Taylor's screen adaptation of a novel 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.

1 Plot
2 Release Dates
3 Cast
4 References

[edit] Plot

Kill the Poor begins with a fire in the apartment of tough guy Carlos DeJesus and his troublemaking son Segundo. The screenplay then focuses on the other tenants of the rundown building in an attempt to determine who set the blaze.

The other principles are:

Joe Peltz, a young man who ignored his uncle's warnings to bring his wife Annabelle and their young child into the neighborhood where his Jewish grandparents had their start in America;

Spike, an aspiring found-object sculptor;

Delilah, a flamboyant gay man;

Butch, a presumptuous graduate student;

Scarlet, the tenement's resident floozy;

Negrito, a fixture in the neighborhood.

A shared distrust of Carlos and Segundo unites this eclectic group and prompts them to hold "co-op" meetings with one goal: eviction of Carlos and Segundo DeJesus.