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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Charles Burnett
Writer:
Charles Burnett (writer)
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Release Date:
20 June 2008 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins more
NewsDesk:
(6 articles)
Interview: Margot Benacerraf (Araya)
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Stangely Compelling Film more (20 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Henry G. Sanders ... Stan (as Henry Gayle Sanders)
Kaycee Moore ... Stan's wife
Charles Bracy ... Bracy
Angela Burnett ... Stan's daughter
Eugene Cherry ... Eugene
Jack Drummond ... Stan's son
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Additional Details

Runtime:
83 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:16 | UK:12A

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Trivia:
No permits were obtained in the filming of the movie. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After Stan and his friend load the engine block on the truck, they drive away and it falls out, and a car is then seen parked along the curb. The car was not there when they carried the engine out. more
Quotes:
Stan: Stu, what does it remind you of when you hold it next to your cheek?
Stu: [taking the cup of tea] Not a damn thing but hot air.
Stan: Didn't it remind you of when you're making love and a woman 'fore it gets sometimes. Just like this?
Stu: Maybe so. I don't go for women who got malaria.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Hollywoodn't (2009) more
Soundtrack:
I Wonder more

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12 out of 14 people found the following comment useful.
Stangely Compelling Film, 7 November 2007
7/10
Author: Black Narcissus from Maida Vale, UK

For the life of me I wonder what prompted the people at the London Film Festival to screen this film at the NFT.

Filmed sometime in the 70s in Black & White it's the story of a family told over maybe two days and is strangely compelling.

There's no typically Afro-American Urban film scenes just a story about a family and what do. Children play games, dad goes to work and mum looks after the home, an everyday story of life. But don't let that put you off because the film really draws you in somehow. It features a great soundtrack of tunes taken from the 30/40s and some strange (to my mind) editing.

Do try and see this film if it's at a Festival near you because you too will be drawn into it as I was.

Weirdly Wonderful Film.

Black Narcissus

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