Box Brown works at a Bank until certain circumstances combined with political factors result Read More »
Tag Archives: Charles Burnett
The Annihilation of Fish (1999) Charles Burnett, Lynn Redgrave, James Earl Jones, Margot Kidder
After years of living alone, an eccentric black and white couple Read More »
The Glass Shield (1994) Charles Burnett, Michael Boatman, Lori Petty, Erich Anderson
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff’s Department and the first black officer at that station. Read More »
Killer of Sheep (1978) Charles Burnett, Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Read More »
Nightjohn (1996) Charles Burnett, Beau Bridges, Carl Lumbly, Bill Cobbs
Sarny, a 12-year-old slave girl in the ante-bellum South, faces a relatively hopeless life. Read More »
The Wedding (1998) Charles Burnett, Halle Berry, Eric Thal, Lynn Whitfield
Shelby Coles is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell Read More »
My Brother’s Wedding (1983) Charles Burnett, Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett
A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother Read More »
To Sleep with Anger (1990) Charles Burnett, Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Drama
African-American drifter Danny Glover shows up at the LA doorstep of his old pal Paul Butler. In the spirit of auld lang syne, Butler takes Glover in, though his wife (Mary Alice) is not happy with this intrusion. Read More »