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The Landlord
Directed by
Hal Ashby
PG
1970
1h 52m
Drama
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Comedy
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6.9
93%
78%
5.9
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Naïve 29-year-old Elgar Enders buys a building in a black Brooklyn ghetto to evict the tenants and upgrade it. But instead, he grows fond of the tenants and falls in love with a mixed-race girl while his wealthy parents disapprove.
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Cast of The Landlord
Beau Bridges
Elgar Enders
Lee Grant
Joyce Enders
Diana Sands
Francine "Fanny" Johnson
Pearl Bailey
Marge
Walter Brooke
William Enders
Louis Gossett Jr.
Copee Johnson
Marki Bey
Lanie
Mel Stewart
Professor Duboise
Susan Anspach
Susan Enders
Robert Klein
Peter
Will Mackenzie
William Jr.
Gretchen Walther
Doris
Stanley Greene
Heywood
Oliver Clark
Mr. Farcus
Florynce Kennedy
Enid
Joe Madden
Grandfather
Grover Dale
Oscar
Trish Van Devere
Sally
Lawrence Cook
Larry
The Landlord Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Film Blog
Kathy Fennessy
Though Harold and Maude would secure his reputation the following year--once it caught on, that is--Ashby's first film proves he was a natural.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Jas Keimig
Anchored by Gunn's sharp, irreverent script, The Landlord does well because it focuses on the ridiculousness of wealthy white people.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Hal Ashby's dbut film as a director is one of his best.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Liberal guilt, with a few good laughs, a lot of frantic activity, and the occasional backfire.
TIME Magazine
A glossy, flat, fake Hollywood attempt at black social comedy.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Hal Ashby's feature directing debut is a poignant social satire about racial tensions in New York, extremely well acted by Beau Bridges and Lee Grant in an Oscar-nominated role.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
An uneven comedy of manners that bears checking out for its on the money painfully poignant moments.
TV Guide
The script has a few uneven moments, none of which damage the overall quality of the film, and Willis captures the atmosphere of both rich and poor New York lifestyles with an impressive visual style.
Variety
Variety Staff
Beau Bridges heads the uniformly excellent cast as a bored rich youth who buys a black ghetto apartment building and learns something about life.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The Landlord remains one of the funniest social comedies of the period, as well as the most human.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's a compelling and adventurous spectacle, which feels simultaneously like a time capsule and a crucial influence on such recent films as The Royal Tenenbaums and Half Nelson.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It adds up to a more honest, if less optimistic, portrait of American race relations than we usually see in the movies.
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