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A Raisin in the Sun

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

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A Raisin in the Sun — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • May 28, 1961
  • Runtime
  • 128 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, Romance
  • Director
  • Daniel Petrie

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A Raisin in the Sun — Cast

Sidney Poitier photo Sidney Poitier Walter Lee Younger Claudia McNeil photo Claudia McNeil Lena Younger Ruby Dee photo Ruby Dee Ruth Younger Diana Sands photo Diana Sands Beneatha Younger Ivan Dixon photo Ivan Dixon Asagai John Fiedler photo John Fiedler Mark Lindner Louis Gossett Jr. photo Louis Gossett Jr. George Murchison Steven Perry photo Steven Perry Travis Younger

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