A Raisin in the Sun
Visit website7.7/10 • 130
1961-05-28 • 2h 8m
The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
- Directors
- Daniel Petrie
- Editors
- Paul Weatherwax
A Raisin in the Sun
Visit website1961-05-28 • 2h 8m
7.7/10 • 130
The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
- Directors
- Daniel Petrie
- Editors
- Paul Weatherwax
Top Billed Cast
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Sidney Poitier
Walter Lee Younger
Claudia McNeil
Lena Younger
Ruby Dee
Ruth Younger
Diana Sands
Beneatha Younger
Ivan Dixon
Asagai
John Fiedler
Mark Lindner
Louis Gossett Jr.
George Murchison
Steven Perry
Travis Younger
Joel Fluellen
Bobo
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- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $1,500,000.00
- Revenue
- --
- Keywords
- gravehousewiferacial segregationbased on play or musicalracismurban settingracial tensionracial prejudiceneighborhooddiscriminationangrycomplexcautionarydramaticcondescendingdisrespectfulenragedharsh