Comedy

Drama

The Landlord

The Mirisch Company

Cartier Productions

United States of America

English

Beau Bridges

Lee Grant

Diana Sands

Pearl Bailey

Walter Brooke

Louis Gossett Jr.

Marki Bey

Mel Stewart

Susan Anspach

Robert Klein

Will Mackenzie

Gretchen Walther

Douglas Grant

Stanley Greene

Oliver Clark

Florynce Kennedy

Joe Madden

Grover Dale

Trish Van Devere

Lawrence Cook

Héctor Elizondo

John McCurry

Lionel G. Wilson

Marlene Clark

Gloria Hendry

Willis Pinkett

Hannah Battle

Michael Ferguson

Bobby V. Garvin

Richard Usher

Chelle C. Mordecai

Chris Calloway

Carl Lee

Van Kirksey

Louise Stubbs

Tony Major

Hal Ashby

Joan Marshall

Norman Jewison

Diane Kimbrell

Charlie Murphy

Kristin Hunter

Drake Walker

Harold Melvin

Marvin I. Kosberg

Norman I. Cohen

Chris Newman

Kurt Baker

Richard Portman

Vincent Callaghan

James Richard

Terence Nelson

Bill Tuck

Al Kooper

Gordon Willis

William A. Sawyer

Domingo A. Rodriguez

Robert F. Boyle

Edward Warschilka

Lynn Stalmaster

Bill Gunn

Walter Mirisch

Patrick J. Palmer

John Godfrey

Marguerite James

Michael Chapman

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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 married to the lively activist “Copee” (Louis Gossett Jnr) and “Lanie” (Marki Bey) before he also rather recklessly invites his strongly-willed mother (Lee Grant) round to meet the gang and do some decorating. The scene is now set for chaos to abound tempered with a little free-love and some difficulty with race relations as events take a much more complicated turn that requires “Elgar” to do some growing up, at last. This is probably my favourite film from any of the Bridges clan and Beau really takes to the role. His character’s naïve and gullible nature, coupled with his sense of entitlement evolves into something altogether more likeable and he plays that with an amiable innocence that raises a laugh and an heckle in equal measure. It is sharply written to subtly take a swipe at racial intolerance (going both ways) and both the on-form Clark and Bey contribute strongly to help emphasise the thrust of the plot without shoving it down anyone’s throat. It’s a rapidly-paced comedy about clashes of cultures and attitudes that works really quite well.

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