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Release Date: 1990 Cast: Vonetta McGee, Ethel Ayler, Carl Lumbly, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Reina King, Cory Curtis, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Sally Llewellyn, Lorrie Marlow, Sy Richardson, Davis Roberts ...MORE
Cast: Vonetta McGee, Ethel Ayler, Carl Lumbly, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Reina King, Cory Curtis, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Sally Llewellyn, Lorrie Marlow, Sy Richardson, Davis Roberts, Mary Alice, Wonderful Smith, Richard Brooks, Danny Glover ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Family Drama, Indie To Sleep with Anger is a 1990 drama film directed and written by Charles Burnett.
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 Brother (Richard Brooks).
After Gideon suffers a stroke, Harry's... MORE
To Sleep with Anger is a 1990 drama film directed and written by Charles Burnett.
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 Brother (Richard Brooks).
After Gideon suffers a stroke, Harry's influence over the family grows, in particular over Babe Brother, the youngest son. Harry introduces him to a lifestyle of drinking and gambling, and encourages him to leave his wife to join Harry and his friends on the road. However, before Babe Brother gets a chance to leave, Junior confronts him. They fight, and their mother gets stabbed in the hand trying to separate them. After taking her to the hospital, Babe Brother decides to stay with his family instead of joining Harry. When Harry comes back to collect some things, he slips on some marbles belonging to Babe Brother's son, and dies. Soon LESS
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