The film is based on the novel of the same name by. Richly textured and compelling, The Man in My Basement is a new literary pinnacle from an acknowledged American master. Aug11:00am Courtesy of Brad Trent EXCLUSIVE: Willem Dafoe is set to join Nadia Latif’s directorial debut, The Man in My Basement. Sure enough, he has a very particular-and bizarre-set of requirements, and Charles tries to satisfy him without getting lured into the strangeness.īut he sees an opportunity to understand secrets of the white world, and his summer with a man in his basement turns into a journey into inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity. He knows that the stranger must want something more than a basement view. The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. When a stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer, Charles needs the money too badly to say no. Hailed as a masterpiece - the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank - this is the mysterious story of a young black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations. Worst of all, he's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's belonged to his family for generations. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. After a Jewish couple (Jrmie Renier and The Artist's Brnice Bejo) sells their basement to a former history teacher (The Intouchables' Franois Cluzet), they discover his secret life as an.
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