On the top floor of an abandoned tenement, Harry Lesser struggles to complete the novel he has been writing for almost ten years. Then Willie Spearmint, black militant and aspiring writer, moves into another part of the building to work on his own book.... (Full plot summary below)
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On the top floor of an abandoned tenement, Harry Lesser struggles to complete the novel he has been writing for almost ten years. Then Willie Spearmint, black militant and aspiring writer, moves into another part of the building to work on his own book.
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| DallasBlack.comKam WilliamsThe stripped-down production looks more like a play than a movie, but all the actors do a decent job with a script which turns increasingly preposterous at every turn. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe stage is set for a full-scale racial conflict, but neither actor is really up to the task - McDermott seems lost in his voluminous beard and Snoop Dogg spits his lines out. |
| Village VoiceMark HolcombStilted and gloomy as it sounds (and sometimes is), The Tenants gets by on its nimble approximation of Malamud's robust prose, subtle turns of deadpan humor and gut-tingling menace, and remarkable performances. McDermott does credible work here, but Snoop's casting is a stroke of genius. |
| New York PostKyle SmithHarry 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. |
| DVDTalk.comScott WeinbergThe Tenants ranges from one-set character piece to race-centric speech-making to Cinemax style bedroom dealings... Well, at least it's not boring. |
| VarietyRonnie ScheibKeeps grimly glued to its one-note premise, relieved by nary a glimmer of humor, surprise or personality. |
| SalonAndrew O'HehirIsn't exactly bad and isn't exactly good. It's raw in some places and overcooked in others. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxHarkening back to a time when race relations in New York City were even worse than they seem today. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe 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. |
| SlateDana StevensThere's something endearingly bookish about a movie whose single most frightening shot involves the possibility of an ax being taken to a typewriter. |
