Kill the Poor (film)
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25% Director Alan Taylor Screenplay Daniel Handler Duration Language English | 5.1/10 52% Genre Drama Story by Joel Rose Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date Tribeca Film Festival
May 9, 2003
United States limited
January 6, 2006 Based on Kill the Poor by Joel Rose Writer Joel Rose (novel), Daniel Handler (screenplay) Cast Clara Bellar (Annabelle Peltz), Heather Burns (Scarlet), Jon Budinoff (Segundo Dejesus), Paul Calderon (Carlos DeJesus), Lawrence Gilliard Jr. (Spike), Cliff Gorman (Yakov)Similar movies The Last Witch Hunter , The Wedding Banquet , C.R.A.Z.Y. , The Avengers , Captain America: The First Avenger , Another Country |
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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. The film's title comes from the Dead Kennedys song "Kill the Poor".
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Plot
Kill the Poor begins with a fire in the apartment of tough guy Carlos DeJesus and his trouble-making 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 principals are:
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.
Release
Kill the Poor was first screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003. It was then shown in 2006 at the IFC Center in New York City.
Cast
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