Directed by: Charles Burnett
Starring: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, Richard Brooks, Sheryl Lee Ralph, DeVaughn Nixon, Reina King, Cory Curtis, Paula Bellamy, Wonderful Smith, Ethel Ayler, Beverly Mickins, Jimmy Witherspoon, Julius Harris
102 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)
PLOT:
Gideon and his wife Suzie live in South Central Los Angeles. Harry, a longstanding friend from the South whom they have not seen for many years, makes a surprise visit. The couple are delighted to see him and insist that he stay with them for as long as he wishes. Harry has a charming, down-home manner, but his enigmatic and somewhat amoral presence brings to a crisis trouble simmering in the family—especially as regards the younger son, Samuel or "Babe Brother", and his relationships with his parents, wife, and older brother, Junior. Harry's presence threatens to break up Samuel's marriage and seems to be related to an illness Gideon develops. It proves ultimately purgative, though Harry's precise role remains ambiguous.
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