The Landlord

Insightful social satire stars Beau Bridges as Elgar Enders, a sheltered rich kid who wants to prove his financial savvy by buying a Brooklyn tenement in order to gentrify the neighborhood. Instead, he finds himself assimilating into the lives of the tenants he had planned to evict, and falling in love with a black art student (Marki Bey) to the annoyance of his domineering mother (Lee Grant). Hal Ashby’s directorial debut also stars Pearl Bailey, Diana Sands, Louis Gossett, Jr. Susan Anspach. 112 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; Subtitles: English; featurettes; theatrical trailer.