To Sleep with Anger PG

When Harry comes to town, he brings good times, bad times… And a lot of trouble!
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  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 26, 2019
  • Originally Released: 2019
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 532
With an excellent blues, gospel and jazz soundtrack to boot.
Uncut
Jul 1, 2004
...Glover's blend of malevolence and charm is magnetic, the supporting turns are uniformly top-notch and the movie's emotional impact is impossible to deny...
Total Film
May 1, 2002
The greatest film made by a black American... Full Review
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Aug 22, 2018
A strange film which I think would reward rewatching. Full Review
Patheos
Mar 19, 2019
Rating: 2.5/4 -- What should be a coiled film, exploding at the end, is one where the final act releases our impatience rather than our tension. There are some good things in this movie, and too much time in between them. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 3/5 -- This stately, stagey, funereally paced contemporary drama of middle-class African-American life looks as if it could have been set almost any time in the past half-century. Full Review
Guardian
Jul 11, 2002
It's a very entertaining, complex film, a comedy of unusual substance that also manages to keep the audience in suspense as to when the comedy might dissolve into some kind of vicious melodrama. Full Review
New York Times
Aug 31, 2004

Product Description:

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 58,676
  • UPC: 715515226813
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