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"Kill the Poor" is the story of Joe Peltz (David Krumholtz), a young man in 1980s New York, who buys into a squatter tenement in the Lower East Side neighborhood where his immigrant grandparents first settled, hoping to make a life for his new wife Annabelle (Clara Bellar) and the baby they have on the way. From the start, the former tenants of the apartment, and heads of "the corporation" that run the co-op, warn Joe and Annabelle that living in the building will be more than they bargained for, and that their relationship may not survive. Joe's Uncle Yakov (Cliff Gorman) is constantly reminding him that this "war zone" is not his grandmother's neighborhood anymore - there are junkies sleeping in his grandfather's old tailor shop, the building where his mother was born is now a vacant lot, you can't even find the synagogue, and the corner bodega has been shut down for selling human meat. But this apartment is all they can afford, and Joe is determined to make it work. As Joe struggles to keep himself and his

Posted: 1/1/2008 Length: 01:24:01 Price: Free Video Type: Full Length