, It is the story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves in down the hall. The film stars Dylan McDermott, Snoop Dogg, Rose Byrne and Seymour Cassel and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, 2005. THE TENANTS is the story of two writers, the Lesser, Jewish-American, and Willie, African-American. The setting is an abandoned New York tenement in 1972. The last remaining tenant, ...