To say the couple lives modestly after marriage is an understatement — together with their young daughters, the Barnums live in a tiny,
squalid apartment and are barely scraping enough money together to live when «Phin» schemes his way into a big bank loan, buys a decrepit museum of oddities and turns it into a (literal) freak show.
Patti (Australian actress Danielle Macdonald) lives with, and takes care of, her hard - drinking, sometimes abusive mother (Bridget Everett) and wheelchair - bound Nana (Cathy Moriarty) in a cramped,
squalid apartment.
As we see families forced into shelters,
squalid apartments, or more dangerous neighborhoods, we bear witness to the human cost of America's vast inequality — and to people's determination and intelligence in the face of hardship.
Not exact matches
The governor — who last week toured a
squalid, insect - infested public - housing
apartment in The Bronx — implicitly ripped de Blasio's oversight of NYCHA.
Carrión abruptly announced her resignation in December, one day before the state released a report on repeated ACS blunders that preceded the deadly beating of 6 - year - old Zymere Perkins in a
squalid Harlem
apartment.
This contraposition comes into stark relief when we see an evicted Jewish couple in whose plush
apartment Schindler has just installed himself, moving into a
squalid, overcrowded
apartment block in the Krakow ghetto.