The Tenants

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. 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. 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 References