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Personal Problems
Directed by
Bill Gunn
Not Rated
1980
2h 45m
Drama
7.3
100%
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A partly improvised story of a complicated marriage, the people surrounding the central couple, friends they're having affairs with, and unwanted family.
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Hoopla
Free
Cast of Personal Problems
Vertamae Grosvenor
Johnnie Mae Brown
Walter Cotton
Charles Brown
Bill Gunn
Mr. Damien
Ishmael Reed
Manager of Doggie Diner
Jim Wright
Father Brown
Margo Williams
Della
Sam Waymon
Raymon
Thommie Blackwell
Bubba
Michele Wallace
Sharon
John H. Wells
Numbers Man
Miamani Mutima
Woman in Café
Carey Barnes
Patient's Uncle
Tres/Marshall M. Johnson, III
Aikijutso Waiter
Michael Watts
Patient
Lester Williams
Patient's Brother
Dr. Alan Beckles
Doctor
Dr. William Grant
Doctor
Kip Hanrahan
White radical in bar
Kenny de Louche
Musician in bar
Vincent Hall
Musician in bar
Personal Problems Ratings & Reviews
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
There is a film, possibly a gem, buried way deep down here. It would be an interesting project to try to build that film from the pieces.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
There is no escaping the degraded look of early 3/4" video, digitized for the restoration, but the acting and storytelling immerse us into a real black experience of the time, unadulterated by Hollywood's cliches.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Bill Gunn and Ishmael Reed collapse conventional notions of reality, providing simultaneous glimpses into the minds of dozens of characters, lingering on scenes and informing them with confessional intensity.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
An accessible experiment made at the dawn of the video era.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
For all its rough edges, "Personal Problems" retains a vitality and an integrity that practically bounds off the screen.
Village Voice
Craig D. Lindsey
A view of African Americans that's messy, complicated, dramatic, and, most important, honest.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The movie's panoramic cityscapes teem with the gritty details of emotional life: romance and chores, hope and despair and loss, bitter resentments and rowdy reckonings with mortality.
Film Inquiry
Lee Jutton
Personal Problems focuses on Black humanity in all of its highs and lows, hopes and fears, mistakes, and triumphs.
Screen Slate
Jon Dieringer
It's a necessary work, and one of the major repertory revivals of this or any other year.
MUBI
Bedatri D. Choudhury
One doesn't quite watch Personal Problems for its technical superiority, one watches it for the problems that still persist, to draw a line of legacy for A Wrinkle in Time, Black Panther and Mudbound that have been made
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
Uneven, sometimes disjointed, its narrative threads nowhere near resolved at the end, Personal Problems is nonetheless something rare and valuable, particularly for its era.
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