The Tenants (2005 film)

The Tenants is a 2005 film drama directed by Danny Green and starring Dylan McDermott and Snoop Dogg. It is based on the 1971 novel The Tenants by Bernard Malamud.

The Tenants
Directed by	Danny Green
Written by	David Diamond Danny Green (adaptation) Bernard Malamud (novel)
Produced by	Chris Bongirne
Starring	Snoop Dogg Dylan McDermott Rose Byrne
Cinematography	David Dubois
Edited by	Michael J. Duthie
Music by	Leigh Gorman Coati Mundi
Distributed by	Millennium Films
Release dates	October 26, 2005 (2005-10-26) (Asheville Film Festival) February 3, 2006 (2006-02-03) (United States)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Premise

In an abandoned tenement, a militant African-American writer and a Jewish novelist develop a friendship while struggling to complete their novels before the landlord forceably evicts them, but interpersonal tensions rise between the tenants and escalate into violence.^[1]

Cast

• Dylan McDermott as Harry Lesser
• Snoop Dogg as Willie Spearmint
• Rose Byrne as Irene Bell
• Seymour Cassel as Levenspiel
• Niki J. Crawford as Mary Kettlesmith
• Aldis Hodge as Sam Clemence
• Gene Gilbert as Mr. Ross
• Linda Lawson as Anna