Kill the Poor

May 9, 2003

1h 25m

★ 5.3

Overview

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

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

IFC Productions

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Cast

Annabelle Peltz

Clara Bellar

Scarlet

Heather Burns

Segundo Dejesus

Jon Budinoff

Carlos DeJesus

Paul Calderon

Spike

Lawrence Gilliard Jr.

Yakov

Cliff Gorman

Joe Peltz

David Krumholtz

Bruno

Chuck Low

Rose

Maryfrances Careccia

Joel

Chris Hutchison

Constance, Toddler

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