A Raisin in the Sun

  • Drama
  • Romance
5/28/1961
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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.

Director:
Daniel Petrie
Writer:
Lorraine Hansberry
Budget:
$1,500,000
    • grave
    • housewife
    • racial segregation
    • based on play or musical
    • racism
    • urban setting
    • racial tension
    • racial prejudice
    • neighborhood
    • discrimination
    • angry
    • complex
    • cautionary
    • dramatic
    • condescending
    • disrespectful
    • enraged
    • harsh

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    Cast

    • 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
    • Louis Terrel
      Herman
    • Roy Glenn
      Willie Harris
    • George DeNormand
      Employer (uncredited)
    • Bob Sweeney
      Insurance Company Agent (uncredited)
    • Thomas D. Jones
      Chauffeur (uncredited)
    • Rudolph Monroe
      Taxi Driver (uncredited)
    • Ray Stubbs
      Bartender (uncredited)

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