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To Sleep with Anger is a 1990 American black comedy film written and directed by Charles Burnett. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Oct 12, 1990 · To Sleep with Anger: Directed by Charles Burnett. With Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Mary Alice, Reina King. A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.
Oct 26, 1990 · Charles Burnett's "To Sleep With Anger" is a subtle kind of horror movie in which the unwelcome visitor is not a slasher or a cartoon character, but a soft-spoken relative from down South, getting on a bit in years, well-dressed, seemingly courteous.
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.
Hard-drinking yet charismatic, Harry both entertains and enrages Gideon and his wife, Suzie (Mary Alice). However, after Gideon falls gravely ill, Harry decides to...
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May 30, 2013 · Serio-comedy in which a visitor in a black middle-class home in Los Angeles has an unsettling effect on the household.
To Sleep with Anger has lost none of its power to unsettle viewers as Harry’s worldview (“I don’t believe in sin, though there is good and evil”) undermines Gideon and Suzie’s family. Or is he just “clearing the waters?”
