Directed by:
Charles BurnettScreenplay:
Charles BurnettCinematography:
Walt LloydComposer:
Stephen James TaylorCast:
Danny Glover, Mary Alice, Paul Butler, Richard Brooks, DeVaughn Nixon, Reina King, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, Julius Harris, Sy Richardson (more)VOD (1)
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A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by Charles Burnett is a singular piece of American mythmaking. In a towering performance, Danny Glover plays the enigmatic southern drifter Harry, a devilish charmer who turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry’s presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, To Sleep with Anger is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous artistic sensibility, a portrait of family resilience steeped in the traditions of black mysticism and folklore. (Criterion)
(more)Awards
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- Nominations
Independent Spirit Awards
- 1991 - Charles Burnett (Best Director)
- 1991 - Danny Glover (Best Male Lead)
- 1991 - Sheryl Lee Ralph (Best Supporting Female)
- 1991 - Charles Burnett (Best Screenplay)
- 1991 - Caldecot Chubb, Darin Scott, Thomas S. Byrnes (Best Feature)
- 1991 - Mary Alice (Best Female Lead)
- 1991 - Ethel Ayler (Best Supporting Female)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 1990 - Charles Burnett (Best Screenplay)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 1990 - Danny Glover (Best Actor)
- 1990 - Charles Burnett (Best Screenplay)
Sundance Film Festival
- 1990 - Charles Burnett (Dramatic Special Jury Recognition)
- 1990 - Charles Burnett (U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic)