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A Raisin in the Sun (1961) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 22, 2000
Budget $1,500,000
Running Time
2 hours, 8 minutes
Country USA
Studio Columbia Pictures
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Other Titles
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Fleck in der Sonne, Ein (1961)
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Genre: Drama, Tear Jerker, Urban, Society, School / Campus
Tagline: The Prize-Winning Drama That Warms The Screen With Its People and Its Passions!...
Plot: Director Daniel Petrie's highly acclaimed drama is a seminal portrait of African American life in the mid-1950s, based on Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking play, that achieved critical and commercial success at a time when the viability of a black audience or a white crossover audience was not considered a possibility. Lena Younger (Claudia McNeil), the stalwart matriarch of an impoverished black family, dreams of owning a nice home in a tidy, integrated suburb. In the meantime, she shares a small apartment on Chicago's South Side with her underemployed adult son, Walter (Sidney Poitier); his emotionally resilient wife, Ruth (Ruby Dee); their child, Travis (Stephen Perry); and her daughter, Beneatha (Diana Sands). Though there's plenty of love in the family, the close quarters breed desperation and discontent. But Lena's prayers are finally answered when she receives a $10,000 insurance policy her husband left behind. The money becomes a symbol for freedom for each member of the Younger family: Lena sees it as a ticket out of the ghetto and into a home of her own, Walter sees it as a chance to regain his dignity and start his own business, while Beneatha dreams of medical school. Their internal struggle threatens to tear the Younger family apart in this moving and
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