The Tenants Movie Trailer

THE TENANTS is based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Bernard Malamud, whose other adapted works into film include THE FIXER and THE NATURAL. 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 the hall. The film stars Dylan McDermott, Snoop Dogg, Rose Byrne and Seymour Cassel and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, 2005.

THE TENANTS is the story of two writers, the Lesser, Jewish-American, and Willie, African-American. The setting is an abandoned New York tenement in 1972. The last remaining tenant, Lesser works on his novel about the possibility of love. He befriends Willie, an illegal squatter, in the building and tries to help him with his writing. Their first argument occurs when Lesser criticizes Willie's immature and "black" writing style.

Lesser meets Willie's white girlfriend Irene. The two fall in love and Irene leaves Willie. In revenge, Willie burns the only manuscript of Lesser's novel that has taken almost ten years to write.

There is then a climactic life-and-death struggle, carried out with raw violence, between Lesser and Willie. As our story ends, in the words of Malamud, "Each, thought the writer, feels the other's anguish" is the last line of Lesser's novel.
and the meaning is clear - communication and cooperation between the races has failed.

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[Danny Nichols]

absoloute load of bollocks wasn't it? i wholeheartedly agree.

[Danny Nichols]

I hated this film. A blatant platform for Snoop Dogs racism. His fucking whining made me throw it out the window.

[isleofdogsmovie]

@RisingChibis

The music was made for the movie and that piece is called 'Lesser's Theme', composed and played by Leigh Gorman, bass player for Bow Wow Wow. It has never been released to my knowledge. But it may be in the near future.

[Dan Bloom]

@RisingChibis, you asked about the music, i think it might be this --

The "Quartettsatz in C Minor"

by Franz Schubert

Performed by Quartetto Amati for this movie soundtrack. IF I AM RIGHT and you want to thank me, msg me here or email me at danbloom at gmail

[RJSyeah]

lol I was taking this film seriously until snoop dog turned up!

[remco de vries]

this is the biggest shit movie that i ever had seen in my life only the end of this movie is good

[eSeGUER0]

snoop wtf!!!!1

[Rising Chibis]

Anybody, could you please write the name of the music playing in the beginning of the trailer? These music is also playing in the end of the movie. Such a good thing!

I searched for it in the Internet, but nothing i found. Shit...