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Kill the Poor is a american film of genre Drama directed by Alan Taylor released in USA on 9 may 2003 with David Krumholtz

Kill the Poor (2003)

Kill the Poor
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Released in USA 9 may 2003
Length 1h25
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating52% 2.6199052.6199052.6199052.6199052.619905

Kill the Poor is director Alan Taylor's screen adaptation of a novel by Joel Rose. The film is set in Manhattan's Alphabet City in the early 1980s, when the neighborhood was a center of illegal drug activity. The film's title comes from the Dead Kennedys song "Kill the Poor".

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Kill the Poor begins with a fire in the apartment of tough guy Carlos DeJesus and his trouble-making son, Segundo. The screenplay then focuses on the other tenants of the rundown building in an attempt to determine who set the blaze.

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