Kill the Poor (film) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Kill the poor short movie

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".

Dead kennedys kill the poor finland 1981

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:

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.