To Sleep with Anger

This is one of my favorite movies. I love and hate Danny Glover in this role. I wish it was available on DVD.... Full review

This is not nearly as good as Burnett's "Killer of Sheep," but then again most films aren't. This is an interesting story that starts out as a mundane, nostalgic look back at life and good times. Later the film takes a... Full review

Though it's extremely slow going at times, "To Sleep With Anger" offers a universal look at familial dynamics, articulated from a uniquely black, warmly poetic perspective. Charles Burnett, whose 1977 film "Killer of Sheep" just made the Library of Congress keeper list, spins a yarn suitable to Allhallows' Eve in the amusingly macabre "To Sleep With Anger. ... Full Review

What really sticks out in TO SLEEP WITH ANGER is its richness of imagery.....blues singers, gamblers, and other shady characters who drink heavily and have vaguely violent pasts.....Other memorable scenes include shots of the kid next door struggling to play a trumpet, undercutting the stereotypes about blacks and music;....Danny Glover, who used some of his post-LETHAL WEAPON clout to finance the film, won for himself a rare opportunity to show his dramatic range.....An atypical look at suburban middle-cla ... Full Review

The film's only flaw is that the "eventually" is too long in coming. A younger brother grows weak and without direction. There are some good things in this movie, and too much time in between them. ... Full Review

Charles Burnett, the most gifted black American director offering purely realistic depictions of black urban life, was able to make this 1990 feature only.... ... Full Review

The scene, at once baffling, poignant and absurd, is a fine indication of the hybrid vision that follows..... ... Full Review

A UCLA film school graduate and probably the most revered African American cineast among critics and scholars, Burnett is best known for To Sleep With Anger (1990), a subtle, complex tale starring Danny Glover set in a contemporary middle-class black... ... Full Article

TODAY Fade to black Which cable network produces the most amount of original programming featuring African-American talent? If you guessed BET, you're wrong: It's Showtime. ... Full Article

Previous Page 2 of 2 Glover warns, however, against overdoing his image as a goody two-shoes. ''I enjoy Harry,'' he says of his character in Charles Burnett's acclaimed To Sleep With Anger , an unnerving 1990 film in which he... ... Full Article

African-American drifter Danny Glover shows up at the LA doorstep of his old pal Paul Butler. In the spirit of auld lang syne, Butler takes Glover in, though his wife (Mary Alice) is not happy with this intrusion. ... Full Article

A box-office disappointment on its initial 1990 release, To Sleep With Anger cuts against the ghetto grain of early 90s African-American cinema. Both a naturalistic domestic drama and a mystical fable, it focuses on a middle-class black household in South... ... Full Article

Burnett's first film since the provocative To Sleep with Anger in 1990 is a Lumet-style policier inspired by an everyday tale of LAPD-sponsored murder, racism and corruption. ... Full Article