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A Raisin in the Sun(1961)

The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...

7.7(149)2h 8m1961-05-28

DramaRomance

Overview

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
Writers:: Lorraine Hansberry, Lorraine Hansberry
Producers:: Ronald H. Gilbert, David Susskind, Philip Rose
Cinematographer:: Charles Lawton Jr.
Composer:: Laurence Rosenthal
Production:: Columbia Pictures
Budget:: $1,500,000
Status:: Released

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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

Louis Gossett Jr.

Louis Gossett Jr.

George Murchison

Steven Perry

Steven Perry

Travis Younger

Joel Fluellen

Joel Fluellen

Bobo

Louis Terrel

Louis Terrel

Herman

Roy Glenn

Roy Glenn

Willie Harris

George DeNormand

George DeNormand

Employer (uncredited)