The Landlord

The Landlord

1970 · 112 min · EN · 5.6 (38 votes)
Dir. Hal Ashby · Starring Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Walter Brooke, Louis Gossett Jr. · Music Al Kooper

Watch the landlord get his.

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At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.

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A raw, unflinching look at urban decay and shifting social dynamics. It feels like a conversation you shouldn't be having, but can't look away from, exposing uncomfortable truths with a biting, often bleak, sense of humor.

cynicaldarkly comedicuncomfortableprovocativesteadygritty realismcharacter-driven dramasocial commentaryrace relationsgentrificationclass struggleidentity
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