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A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
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"The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions..."
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2 hr 8 min
May 28th, 1961
Drama
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Romance
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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.
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Sidney Poitier
Claudia McNeil
Ruby Dee
Director
Daniel Petrie
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Sidney Poitier
as Walter Lee Younger
C
Claudia McNeil
as Lena Younger
R
Ruby Dee
as Ruth Younger
D
Diana Sands
as Beneatha Younger
I
Ivan Dixon
as Asagai
J
John Fiedler
as Mark Lindner
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Daniel Petrie
Director
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Lorraine Hansberry
Screenplay
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Ronald H. Gilbert
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L
Lorraine Hansberry
Theatre Play
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David Susskind
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Paul Weatherwax
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Theatrical Release:
May 28th, 1961
On DVD & Blu-ray:
February 22nd, 2000
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Movie Budget:
$1,500,000
Original Language:
English
Executive Producers:
Stephen Shalom
Production Companies:
Columbia Pictures
Movie Tags:
based on play or musical
racism
dramatic
complex
angry
cautionary
discrimination
housewife
grave
urban setting
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