1961
7.7 (132 votes)
2h 8m
Genres
Drama
Romance
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures
A Raisin in the Sun
The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...
Overview
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
Screenplay: Lorraine Hansberry
Producer: Ronald H. Gilbert, David Susskind, Philip Rose
Director of Photography: Charles Lawton Jr.
Top Cast
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
Videos
A Raisin in the Sun (1961) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]
