A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun
1961
★★★★☆ 7.7/10
⏱️ 128 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
DramaRomance
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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Cast

Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier
Walter Lee Younger
Claudia McNeil
Claudia McNeil
Lena Younger
Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee
Ruth Younger
Diana Sands
Diana Sands
Beneatha Younger
Ivan Dixon
Ivan Dixon
Asagai
John Fiedler
John Fiedler
Mark Lindner

Crew

Director
Daniel Petrie
Writer
Lorraine Hansberry
Producer
Ronald H. Gilbert, David Susskind, Stephen Shalom

Production

Columbia Pictures

Keywords

gravehousewiferacial segregationbased on play or musicalracismurban settingracial tensionracial prejudiceneighborhooddiscrimination