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The Tenants
The Tenants
Directed by	Danny Green
Written by	David Diamond; Danny Green (adaptation); Bernard Malamud (novel)
Produced by	Chris Bongirne
Starring	Snoop Dogg; Dylan McDermott; Rose Byrne
Cinematography	David Dubois
Edited by	Michael J. Duthie
Music by	Leigh Gorman; Coati Mundi
Distributed by	Millennium Films
Release dates	October 26, 2005 (Asheville Film Festival); February 3, 2006 (United States);
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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The Tenants is a 2005 film drama directed by Danny Green and starring Dylan McDermott and Snoop Dogg. It is based on the 1971 novel The Tenants by Bernard Malamud.

Premise

In an abandoned tenement, a militant African-American writer and a Jewish novelist develop a friendship while struggling to complete their novels before the landlord forceably evicts them, but interpersonal tensions rise between the tenants and escalate into violence.^[1]

Cast

Dylan McDermott as Harry Lesser
Snoop Dogg as Willie Spearmint
Rose Byrne as Irene Bell
Seymour Cassel as Levenspiel
Niki J. Crawford as Mary Kettlesmith
Aldis Hodge as Sam Clemence
Gene Gilbert as Mr. Ross
Linda Lawson as Anna

References

^ "The Tenants - Review - Movies - New York Times". movies2.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.

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[1] "The Tenants - Review - Movies - New York Times". movies2.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.

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 | producer = Chris Bongirne
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+| director = Danny Green
 | writer = [[David Diamond (screenwriter)|David Diamond]]<br />Danny Green (adaptation)<br />[[Bernard Malamud]] (novel)
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-'''''The Tenants''''' is a 2005 film drama starring [[Dylan McDermott]] and [[Snoop Dogg]]. Screened at only one theatre, the film received harsh criticism due to what some critics discerned as anachronistic depictions of the racial tension between the principal characters and a lack of multidimensionality.  Consequently, the film was not screened further, being released on DVD directly after its ill-fated theatre release. It currently holds 32% at [[Rotten Tomatoes]]. The film is an adaptation of a novel of the same name that was published in 1971 by author [[Bernard Malamud]].
+'''''The Tenants''''' is a 2005 film drama directed by Danny Green and starring [[Dylan McDermott]] and [[Snoop Dogg]]. It is based on the 1971 novel ''[[The Tenants (novel)|The Tenants]]'' by [[Bernard Malamud]].
-== Plot ==
+==Premise==
+In an abandoned tenement, a militant African-American writer and a Jewish novelist develop a friendship while struggling to complete their novels before the landlord forceably evicts them, but interpersonal tensions rise between the tenants and escalate into violence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/movies/03tena.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1138984647-tLtMvNgen+exfMAJU32eQwmovie|title=The Tenants - Review - Movies - New York Times|website=movies2.nytimes.com|access-date=2019-04-10}}</ref>
-The film is very loyal to its source material, depicting the labored and painstakingly slow efforts of main character—Jewish Harry Lesser—in drafting what is to be his third novel.  Lesser is the remaining tenant of a dilapidated tenement.  The landlord—for reasons not revealed—cannot or does not evict Lesser, though he periodically offers increasing amounts of money to entice Lesser to move.  At some point Lesser becomes aware that another tenant—an Afro-American squatter named Willie Spearmint—has taken up residence in the tenement, and that this other tenant is also a writer who has determined to type his book at the tenement as well.  The two eventually become acquainted and become embroiled in a deadly conflict over Spearmint's Jewish girlfriend, Irene.
-== Box office ==
+==Cast==
+*[[Dylan McDermott]] as Harry Lesser
-On its opening weekend, the film amounted $2,010.
+*[[Snoop Dogg]] as Willie Spearmint
+*[[Rose Byrne]] as Irene Bell
+*[[Seymour Cassel]] as Levenspiel
+*Niki J. Crawford as Mary Kettlesmith
+*[[Aldis Hodge]] as Sam Clemence
+*Gene Gilbert as Mr. Ross
+*[[Linda Lawson (actress)|Linda Lawson]] as Anna
+==References==
-{{Snoop Dogg}}
+<references />
 == External links ==
 * {{IMDb title|0429173|The Tenants}}
 * {{Rotten Tomatoes|the_tenants|The Tenants}}
-* {{Metacritic|the-tenants|The Tenants}}
+* {{Metacritic film|title=The Tenants}}
-* [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tenants.htm Box Office Information]
+* [https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tenants.htm Box Office Information]
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