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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 · A horror movie about a mysterious and threatening relative who stays with a black family in California and brings anger and sadness. Danny Glover plays Harry, the emissary of evil, in this subtle and slow-paced film by Charles Burnett.
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.
To Sleep with Anger examines cultural tensions with a deft hand and a potent blend of comedy and drama, stirred skillfully to life by a strong cast led by Danny Glover. Read Critics Reviews...
TCM’s broadcast of Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger (1990) is a rare chance to discover—or rediscover—an underseen masterwork (it only opened in 17 theaters nationwide) that The Atlantic in 2019 hailed as “one of the best movies of the 1990s.”
Feb 26, 2019 · In To Sleep with Anger—a film ostensibly about adult relationships—children are once again crucial as observers, catalysts, and subtle symbols. Babe Brother and his wife’s young son, Sunny (DeVaughn Walter Nixon), rarely speaks, but he is quietly present in, and affected by, many scenes of familial tension marked by Babe Brother’s ...
