Review of The Landlord (1970) by Allan C — 03 Aug 2014
Unassuming but brilliant little comedy drama about an aimless rich kid, Beau Bridges, who decides to "run away from home" and busy an apartment building with the plan of evicting the tenants and renovating the building to suit his own liking.
However, Bridges finds himself bonding with the racially, culturally and politically diverse tenants and things change. The film gets even more fun when Bridges' wealthy family is pulling into the apartment building and meeting his new acquaintances.
The was director Hal Ashby's directorial debut and he does a fabulous job of populating a film of likable and entertaining characters, including Lee Grant as Bridges' mom, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett, Jr.
and Hector Elizondo and building tenants and you can never go wrong with anything that Robert Klein does. Highly enjoyable and a film that I'd never even heard of until I listed to a Mark Maron podcast where Leonard Malton mentioned this as one of his favorite films of the 1970s.
Luckily, TCM happened to be showing this film.
This review of The Landlord (1970) was written by Allan C on 03 Aug 2014.
The Landlord has generally received positive reviews.
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