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)
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