Kill the Poor
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 26 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 12, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Ifc
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Clara Bellar | |
| Performer: | Paul Calderon, Heather Burns, Larry Gilliard, Jr., Cliff Gorman & David Krumholtz | |
| Directed by | Alan Taylor | |
| Screenwriting by | Daniel Handler | |
| Produced by | Alexis Alexanian, John Malkovich, Gary Winick & Russell Smith | |
| Director of Photography: | Harlan Bosmajian |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: B- --
In spite of its oddities, [Kill the Poor] pulls off a memorable story.
AV Club
Shot on a modest DV budget, Kill the Poor isn't pretty, but it's a balanced look at the dirty politics of gentrification.
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Village Voice
Rating: 2/4 --
Nowhere near as provocative as its title might imply.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Alan Taylor's film will resonate with any New Yorker who's played real-estate roulette in Fun City.
TV Guide
Rating: 2/4 --
A movie with more character than narrative, it's a showcase for the actors, but the storyline could have used some urban renewal.
Newsday
Rating: 2/4 --
KILL the Poor is sort of a poor man's Rent - - minus the music and the AIDS - - and much blander than the title would have you expect.
New York Post
Rating: 2/5 --
This lukewarm riff on gentrification and its discontents resurrects the low life and tough times of Alphabet City in the early 1980's.
New York Times
Product Description:
Set in 1982, KILL THE POOR finds Joe Peltz (David Krumholtz) and his pregnant wife, Annabelle (Clara Bellar), moving into a Lower East Side tenement building. But as the daily life of the building takes over their lives--with endless mind-numbing meetings about responsibilities and actions driving Joe and Annabelle crazy--the film builds to an explosive climax. A fascinating glimpse of how New York City used to be, KILL THE POOR is full of all the weird and wonderful characters who made the Lower East Side such a diverse and interesting community to live in.
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