
Kill the Poor
2003-05-09 · 85 min · ★ 5.3
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
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- Directors
- Alan Taylor
- Production companies
- IFC Productions
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Clara BellarAnnabelle Peltz
Heather BurnsScarlet
Jon BudinoffSegundo Dejesus
Paul CalderonCarlos DeJesus
Lawrence Gilliard Jr.Spike
Cliff GormanYakov
David KrumholtzJoe Peltz
Chuck LowBruno
Maryfrances CarecciaRose
Victor PaganAttila
Otto SanchezNegrito
Jamie TirelliBeneficio
Fisher StevensStuffed Shirt
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