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Kill the Poor

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Producing House

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

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 2003-05-09

Runtime: 85 mins

Director: Alan Taylor

Writer: Daniel Handler

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama

Original title: Kill the Poor

Production Companies: IFC Productions

Production Countries: United States of America

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