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A Raisin in the Sun

The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...
May 28, 1961 · 2h 8m
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Drama
Romance

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.

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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
Directed by Daniel Petrie

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$1,500,000
Revenue
—
Production
Columbia Pictures
Country
US

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