A Raisin in the Sun1961
The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...
Director
Screenplay
Lorraine Hansberry
Actors
Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett Jr., Joel Fluellen, Bob Sweeney
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 128 Minutes
Genres
About the film
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.
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Ratings
7.7tmdb
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