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The Landlord is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, adapted by Bill Gunn from the 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter. The film stars Beau Bridges in the lead role of a privileged and ignorant white man who selfishly becomes landlord of an inner-city tenement, unaware that the people he is responsible for are low-income, streetwise residents.
May 20, 1970 · A young white man buys a building in a black ghetto and faces cultural clashes and personal dilemmas. IMDb provides cast and crew, user and critic reviews, trivia, quotes, soundtracks and more for this Oscar-nominated film.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Hal Ashby
- 1970-05-20
The Landlord. 2024 · 1 hr 40 min. TV-PG. Thriller. A struggling writer who thinks she’s stumbled upon the perfect home learns her new landlord's friendly demeanor is masking an unnerving obsession. Subtitles: English. Starring: Ayla Thompson Don Snipes Bianca Samone Williams Tee Bynum Celestine Sears. Directed by: Tonja Ayers Rockey Black.
- Tonja Ayers, Rockey Black
- 99 min
- January 1, 2024
A white landlord moves into a black ghetto and faces the challenges of race, love and family in this drama-comedy. Roger Ebert praises the film's honest and strong dialog, but criticizes its lack of optimism and resolution.
Summaries. At the age of 29, Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges) "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 it into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has ...
Seen today, The Landlord is remarkable for its outstanding ensemble cast which includes the late Diana Sands as Fanny, who has an ill-fated affair with Elgar, Louis Gossett, Jr. as Copee, Fanny's enraged husband, Marki Bey as Lanie, a mulatto artist and dancer who becomes Elgar's girlfriend, and Pearl Bailey as Marge, the resident fortune teller who introduces Elgar to soul food. The real surprise is Lee Grant who practically steals the film as Elgar's racist, high society mother.
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