Personal Problems (1980)
2h 45m
Running Time
August 10, 1980Release Date
Personal Problems (1980)
2h 45m
Running Time
August 10, 1980Release Date
Plot.
An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.
Where to Watch.
Subs
Currently Personal Problems is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Metrograph
Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.
Vertamae Grosvenor
Johnnie Mae Brown
Carey Barnes
Patient's Uncle
Jim Wright
Father Brown
Thommie Blackwell
Bubba
Margo Williams
Della
Walter Cotton
Charles Brown
Sam Waymon
Raymon
Kenny de Louche
Musician in Bar
Michele Wallace
Sharon
Vincent Hall
Musician in Bar
John H. Wells
Numbers Man
Kip Hanrahan
White Radical in Bar
Miamani Mutima
Woman in Café
Bill Gunn
Director
Ishmael Reed
Writer
Tres/Marshall M. Johnson, III
Aikijutso Waiter
Michael Watts
Patient
Lester Williams
Patient's Brother
Carman Moore
Composer
Dr. Alan Beckles
Doctor
Dr. William Grant
Doctor
Roberto Polidori
Editor / Cinematography
Niamani Mutima
Editor
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Personal Problems is a 1980 film described as a "meta soap opera" directed by Bill Gunn and written by Ishmael Reed that depicts the life and personal relationships of an African American nurse (played by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor) living in Harlem. The film was originally intended to be broadcast on television, but the public television network PBS and others did not pick up the soap opera. It was shown across the United States at smaller screenings throughout the 1980s until it found renewed popularity after a screening in the late 2000s at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The film was restored in 2018 by Kino Lorber and re-released at the Metrograph theater in New York City.