The Tenants (2006)

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

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