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Visitor s tirs up trouble in film at Sheldon By Tracy Mueller Staff Reporter Many people welcome old friends into their homes and treat them like family. But a visit can quickly sour and life can become frustrating and confusing, depending on the old friend. In “To Sleep With Anger,” the Sheldon Film Theater’s latest offer ing, the old friend is Harry Mention (Danny Glover). When Harry show s up on the doorstep of his old friends, Gideon and Suzie (Paul Butler and Mary Alice), he is welcomed and told to make himself at home. He does, and life for Gideon and Suzie and their family takes a nasty twist. Gideon and Suzie, sharecroppers from the South now retired in south central Los Angeles, have tried to instill their Southern values and life style in their two sons. Gideon keeps chickens and a garden in the back yard, Suzie is a midwife, and both stick to the religion, values and super stitions of their heritage. Their oldest son, Junior (Carl Lumbly), embraces the family val ues. He and his wife, Rhonda (Reina King) work hard and volunteer their time at a local soup kitchen. But the younger son, Babe Brother (Richard Brooks), has adopted the yuppie life style — complete with a loan officer career, a realtor wife and a Mercedes. His efforts are scorned by his par ents and brother, however. TTiey view Babe Brother as lazy and uncaring because he and his wife Linda (Sheryl Lee Ralph) are obsessed with money and materialism, not family. Babe Brother and Linda avoid the “To Sleep With Anger” Starring Danny Glover, Lee Rated PG Rating: 4 rest of the family as much as possible, although they don’t hesitate to leave their young son, Sunny (Devaughn Walter Nixon), with his grandparents for most of every day. The resulting tensions have been held for years, buried beneath a sur face of strained family civility. Harry’s arrival, after a 30-year absence, uncannily coincides with a series of family crises. Harry is a deeply superstitious old Southern gentleman with a dark side. He takes great pleasure in stirring up the family factions, attempting to set husbands against wives, mothers against fathers and brothers against brothers. But the ensuing crises are resolved, and the family is reunited after Harry’s influence is finally and irrevocably removed. A major question arises in the film: Is Harry truly evil with a deliberate plan to destroy this family, or would the family eventually have resolved its conflicts without outside influ ence? Only the viewer can decide. Writer-director Charles Burnett does a fine job of telling the story of this contemporary black family. He receives wonderful support from Glover and the rest of the cast. Each of the major characters gets a well-rounded story line, and the char acters pull together to form a believ able family torn by misunderstand ings and suspicion. Glover’s portrayal of the wily but superstitious trickster Harry is chill ing, and the rest of the cast is equally I good in its portrayals of each charac ter’s idiosyncrasies. “To Sleep With Anger” is playing at the Sheldon Film theater, 12th and R streets. Charles Burnett directs Danny Glover in “To Sleep With Anger,” a powerful drama about a mys terious visitor and the conflicts he conjures in a south-central Los Angeles family. Album Continued from Page 12 The lyrics are fitting; “Sometimes I got the blackest spirit/ Wants to hold you down/ but the diamonds in my heart/ don’t worry, won’t let you down.” This album is too clinical and sanitary for Ash’s voice, mostly be cause of the digital effects and digital instruments. Ash has a good voice that can express emotion fairly well, but too often he buries the sound under mountains of effects. This album is hard to listen to in one sitting. Each song is unrelated to any other. 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