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To Sleep With Anger

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To Sleep With Anger (1990)

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Reviews Counted:14

Fresh:12

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Average Rating:7.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Charles Burnett's beautiful, poetic masterpiece is novelistic in its narrative density and richness of characterization. Harry Mention (Danny Glover), an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to... Charles Burnett's beautiful, poetic masterpiece is novelistic in its narrative density and richness of characterization. Harry Mention (Danny Glover), an enigmatic drifter from the South, comes to visit an old acquaintance named Gideon (Paul Butler), who now lives in South-Central Los Angeles. Harry's charming, down-home manner hides a malicious penchant for stirring up trouble, and he exerts a strange and powerful effect on Gideon and his thoroughly assimilated black, middle-class family, including wife Suzie (Mary Alice) and sons Junior (Carl Lumbly) and Babe (Richard Brooks). The household was already rife with conflict when the devilish guest arrived, and Harry's grab bag of folktales, lucky charms, and foul magic only deepens the family rift. Sickness and insanity gradually descend upon Gideon's home, and it soon becomes evident that something will have to give. Burnett, who gained prominence with his groundbreaking 1977 film KILLER OF SHEEP, proves with this powerful drama that his earlier effort was no fluke. He paces his film extremely slowly, to the point where subtle throwaway gestures contribute to the film's thickening tension. Glover, known more for his sympathetic performances, is a perfect Harry, an individual so contradictory that he becomes even more of a hidden devil. [More]

Starring: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Sheryl Lee Ralph

Starring: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Carl Lumbly, Richard Brooks, Vonetta McGee, Sy Richardson, Regina King

Director: Charles Burnett

Director: Charles Burnett
Screenwriter: Charles Burnett
Producer: Caldecot Chubb, Thomas Byrnes, Darin Scott

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Jun 13, 1991

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If Killer of Sheep is Burnett's masterpiece, this film, an odd combination of drama, comedy, and irony, well-acted by Danny Glover, is his most accessible picture.

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Empire Magazine

An odd little movie -- and a bit too leisurely paced -- that was largely overlooked on its original release.

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11/08/06
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Rich Cline
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A poetic and consistently surprising comedy-drama that is clearly a pet project for all its participants.

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07/30/03
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Probes the value clashes in a middle-class Los Angeles black family

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07/19/03
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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Christopher Null
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Burnett's acute and sensitive direction is free of hackneyed movie conventions; even something as simple as a hello is said differently from the way you've heard it in any other movie.

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