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A Raisin in the Sun
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.
1961 · Directed by Daniel Petrie · 128 min · Drama · Romance · 10 frames
Tagline
The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...
Crew
- Screenplay: Lorraine Hansberry
- Cinematography: Charles Lawton Jr.
- Edited by: Paul Weatherwax, William A. Lyon
- Music: Laurence Rosenthal
- Produced by: Ronald H. Gilbert, David Susskind, Philip Rose
Cast
- Sidney Poitier as Walter Lee Younger
- Claudia McNeil as Lena Younger
- Ruby Dee as Ruth Younger
- Diana Sands as Beneatha Younger
- Ivan Dixon as Asagai
- John Fiedler as Mark Lindner
- Louis Gossett Jr. as George Murchison
- Steven Perry as Travis Younger
- Joel Fluellen as Bobo
- Louis Terrel as Herman
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Columbia Pictures
- Budget: $1,500,000
- Themes: grave, housewife, racial segregation, based on play or musical, racism, urban setting, racial tension, racial prejudice, neighborhood, discrimination
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