A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
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.
- Date of release
- 1961-05-28
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (153)
- Runtime
- 2h 8m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Daniel Petrie
Casting
- 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)
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