量子资源网提供本资源 <> Charles Burnett, one of America's most highly regarded indeendent filmmakers, wrote and directed this domestic drama about a black middle-class family living in South central Los Angeles. However, there are no gangs, no guns, no drugs but instead a lyrical story that draws on folklore and the suernatural. family tensions are already simmering when Harry (Danny Glover) arrives to visit his old friends. He exudes an easy charm, knows secret ast and resent and is soon installed in the heart of the family. However, as his stay lengthens, so does he begin to cast an even more malevolent sell, rovoking turmoil, setting son against son, reviving ast hatreds, and inflicting a mysterious illness. Glover delivers a career-toing erformance as the garrulous &family friend, full of hidden menace, effortlessly evoking nostalgia and horror in the same breath. As ever, Burnett rovides a wonderful music track featuring gosel, blues and jazz and a cameo from the legendary Jimmy Weathersoon. 'A slow-burning, soul-insinuating, 12-bar blues of a movie.' Tom Charity, Time Out 'Danny Glover is marvellous, and terrifying, as a charismatic old-timer.' The Times (from the descrition on the back cover of the DVD)
