A Raisin in the Sun

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

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Drama
Romance

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.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: May 28, 1961
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Sidney Poitier,Claudia McNeil,Ruby Dee,Diana Sands,Ivan Dixon,John Fiedler,Louis Gossett Jr.,Steven Perry,Joel Fluellen,Louis Terreland 7 more
Director: Daniel Petrie
Writer: Lorraine Hansberry
Producer: Ronald H. Gilbert,David Susskind,Stephen Shalom,Philip Rose
Cinematography: Charles Lawton Jr.
Music: Laurence Rosenthal
Budget: $1,500,000
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0055353