TO SLEEP WITH ANGER

EEUU, 1990
Director: Charles Burnett

Director: Charles Burnett
Productor ejecutivo: Danny Glover
Producción: Caldecot Chubb, Thomas S. Byrnes, Darin Scott.
Fotografía: Walter Lloyd
Montaje: Nancy Richardson
Reparto: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Vonetta McGee, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Carl Lumbly
Música: Stephen James Taylor, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Bobby Bland, Little Milton Campbell, Jimmy Witherspoon, Ethel Ayler, Z. Z. Hill

Featuring a highly accomplished ensemble cast headed by the film’s executive producer, actor Danny Glover, To Sleep With Anger concerns a transplanted African American family’s metaphorical and metaphysical tug-of-war between their comfortable life in Los Angeles and the age-old superstitions and cultural traditions native to their former home in the South.  The catalyst for this mortal conflict is a beloved family friend from back home, Harry Mention (Danny Glover), a “trickster” who arrives unexpectedly with a twinkle in his eye and a soul-rooted connection to the more sinister aspects of Southern folklore.  As Harry’s initially charming, but ultimately devilish, conjuring gradually infiltrates three generations of the family unit, deep-seated fractures in their interrelationships are forced to confrontation.