To Sleep with Anger (Blu-ray) 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 A
  • Released: February 26, 2019
  • Originally Released: 2019
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 532
Rating: 3.5/4 -- an exemplary drama that reveals more and more narrative, emotional, and thematic layers each time you see it Full Review
Q Network Film Desk
Apr 8, 2019
The greatest film made by a black American... Full Review
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Aug 22, 2018
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
Rating: 3/4 -- Burnett employs a lyrical shooting style that aptly fits the material. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Mar 9, 2019
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
One of the finest films to explore city versus country, old ways versus new, kin versus kin. Full Review
Village Voice
Sep 7, 2016

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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