The Tenants 2006

In a decaying New York tenement, a reclusive Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, wrestles with creative block as he navigates the tumultuous world of 1970s racial tensions and artistic struggle. When a black writer moves in next door, their antagonistic relationship becomes a metaphor for the city's deep-seated divisions, threatening to derail Lesser's quest for literary redemption.

In a decaying New York tenement, a reclusive Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, wrestles with creative block as he navigates the tumultuous world of 1970s racial tensions and artistic struggle. When a black writer moves in next door, their antagonistic relationship becomes a metaphor for the city's deep-seated divisions, threatening to derail Lesser's quest for literary redemption.

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