Killer of Sheep

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“An American masterpiece, independent to the bone.” – The New York Times

“Killer of Sheep may be heralded as a document and testament of black cinema.” –  Richard Corliss, TIME 

“This may be Mr. Burnett’s most radical truth-telling.” –  Manohla Dargis, The New York Times 

“A funny, haunting and altogether ineffable slice of neorealism.” –  J. Kim Murphy, Variety

“A masterpiece of unforced, vernacular movie-making.” –  Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Stan, a slaughterhouse worker whose long hours on the job and care to stay on the right side of the law have failed to deliver the American dream. Poverty and desperation pervade his downtrodden community, where kids pass their days throwing rocks in abandoned factory yards and sleazy acquaintances try to persuade Stan to join them on ill-fated criminal schemes. Stan and his wife try to make their house an oasis in the midst of this—he repairs their linoleum floor, she keeps tabs on their two kids—but at the end of the day he still finds himself sitting at their rickety kitchen table, staring into space, wondering if this is all there is.

Part of Three by Charles Burnett