Kill the Poor

Story

Synopsis

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

Director

Alan Taylor

Writers

Joel Rose, Daniel Handler

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

9 May 2003

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Clara Bellar

  Annabelle Peltz

• 

  Heather Burns

  Scarlet

• 

  Jon Budinoff

  Segundo Dejesus

• 

  Paul Calderon

  Carlos DeJesus

• 

  Lawrence Gilliard Jr.

  Spike

• 

  Cliff Gorman

  Yakov

• 

  David Krumholtz

  Joe Peltz

• 

  Chuck Low

  Bruno

• 

  Maryfrances Careccia

  Rose

• Chris Hutchison

  Joel

• Julianna DeDonno

  Constance, Toddler

• Annie Crean

  Constance, Six Months