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20/05/1970 Comedy, Drama 1h 52m
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Watch the landlord get his.

Overview

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.

  1. Hal Ashby

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Beau Bridges

    Elgar Enders

  2. Lee Grant

    Joyce Enders

  3. Diana Sands

    Francine "Fanny" Johnson

  4. Pearl Bailey

    Marge

  5. Walter Brooke

    William Enders

  6. Louis Gossett Jr.

    Copee Johnson

  7. Marki Bey

    Lanie

  8. Mel Stewart

    Professor Duboise

  9. Susan Anspach

    Susan Enders

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-06-07
I don’t suppose you call your kid “Elgar” and expect him to grow up shining shoes so this one (Beau Bridges) has spent nearly all of his thirty years living with his parents in their New York mansion house. Then one day, on a whim, he buys an old Brooklyn brown-stone that is already occupied by a disparate collection of African Americans who have only a passing interest in paying the tent. Initially, he just wants to gentrify the place but gradually he begins to get used to his eclectic mix of tenants and they to him, and then he begins to befriend “Fanny” (Diana Sands) who is marrie...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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