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To Sleep with Anger

To Sleep with Anger

1990, Movie, 1h 41min

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 seems to cast a chaotic spell on what appeared to be a peaceful household, 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 African American mysticism and folklore.

Country: United States

Director:

Charles Burnett

Cast:

Sheryl Lee Ralph

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Critic William Thomas

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...the strength of story carries it, creating an intriguing and charismatic potential masterpiece.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as To Sleep with Anger include The Shawshank Redemption, Awakenings, Rain Man, Dead Poets Society, Scent of a Woman, Philadelphia.

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To Sleep with Anger was released in theaters on October 12, 1990.