Danny Glover, Mary Alice, Paul Butler

Witnessing how the generational disputes between the family patriarch, his wife and their two married sons become amplified when an unexpected visitor drops in... Enter Harry, a smiling charmer from t...( read more  read more... )he old days in the Deep South... Is he in fact an evil spirit, setting a curse upon the house?.. Harry, a bonafied trixter, both frightening and a little pathetic, serves as a catalyst to explore the conflicting systems of belief--Christian, magical, materialistic--endured by an already fragmented middle-class black family.

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PG, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Charles Burnett

Release Date: January 1, 1990

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  • June 3, 2008
    Charles Barnett is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
  • April 22, 2007
    I loved it. Danny Glover was just having a ball, as the heavy, in this low budget, thought provoking movie.

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