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Kill the Poor

Country: USA, Language: English, 85 mins

  • Director: Alan Taylor
  • Writer: Daniel Handler; Joel Rose
  • Producer: Alexis Alexanian; Ruth Charny

CGiii Comment

John Malkovich was one of the producers behind this - kudos to him.

BUT...there is too much arguing among the characters to make this bearable. Rapid onset headache...

It's non-linear and a little clumsy in places but Taylor has a good eye and he certainly knows how to put a film together - it's just the script that is so dreary.

Ultimately, it fails to capture and retain your attention.


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The(ir) Blurb...

When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float.

Cast & Characters

Clara Bellar as Annabelle Peltz;
Jon Budinoff as Segundo Dejesus;
Heather Burns as Scarlet;
Paul Calderon as Carlos DeJesus;
Maryfrances Careccia as Rose;
Annie Crean as Constance, Six Months;
Julianna DeDonno as Constance, Toddler;
Larry Gilliard Jr. as Spike;
Cliff Gorman as Yakov;
Christopher Hutchison as Joel;
David Krumholtz as Joe Peltz;
Chuck Low as Bruno;
Zak Orth as Butch;
Victor Pagan as Attila;
Otto Sanchez as Negrito