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  • 2006
  • R
  • Millennium Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • Millennium Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Bernard Malamud, The Tenants is a socio-political piece set in an abandoned New York apartment building in the early 1970s. It is the story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves in down...

Directed By: Danny Green

Written By: David Diamond, Bernard Malamud, Danny Green

  • 2006
  • R
  • Millennium Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • Millennium Films
  • 1 h 37 m

The Tenants

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Summary Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Bernard Malamud, The Tenants is a socio-political piece set in an abandoned New York apartment building in the early 1970s. It is the story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves in down...

Directed By: Danny Green

Written By: David Diamond, Bernard Malamud, Danny Green

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
46
30% Positive
3 Reviews
60% Mixed
6 Reviews
10% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
46
30% Positive
3 Reviews
60% Mixed
6 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review

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70
There's something endearingly bookish about a movie whose single most frightening shot involves the possibility of an ax being taken to a typewriter.
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63
Harry likes Willie's white girlfriend, played by the Australian actress Rose Byrne with a riveting, sad sexiness. So much screen time is devoted to the men that her part is underwritten, but there are novels in her eyes.
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50
Isn't exactly bad and isn't exactly good. It's raw in some places and overcooked in others.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
50
The message about race relations in America conveyed by The Tenants, a small, serious, but choppy and psychologically cauterized screen adaptation of Bernard Malamud's 1971 novel, is dire.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
Keeps grimly glued to its one-note premise, relieved by nary a glimmer of humor, surprise or personality.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
40
Alternately tedious and bombastic, the film never achieves a consistent tone, and the characters and situations, while seemingly played on a realistic level, are neither remotely credible nor satisfyingly surreal.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
38
Unremittingly bleak and hopelessly outdated parable of American race relations.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG II, Millennium Films
Release Date Feb 3, 2006
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Too close for comfort.
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