A Raisin in the Sun

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

7.7

1961

2h 8m

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.

Key Crew

Director

Daniel Petrie

Producers

Ronald H. Gilbert

David Susskind

Philip Rose

Writers

Lorraine Hansberry

Cinematography

Charles Lawton Jr.

Music

Laurence Rosenthal

Cast (17)

Sidney Poitier

Walter Lee Younger

Claudia McNeil

Lena Younger

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