Film

A Raisin in the Sun

1961 · 2h 8m · Drama · Romance

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

IMDb

8.0

Rotten Tomatoes

90%

Metacritic

87

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.

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

Joel Fluellen

Bobo

Louis Terrel

Herman

Roy Glenn

Willie Harris

George DeNormand

Employer (uncredited)

Bob Sweeney

Insurance Company Agent (uncredited)

Thomas D. Jones

Chauffeur (uncredited)

Rudolph Monroe

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Ray Stubbs

Bartender (uncredited)

• Daniel PetrieDirector
• Lorraine HansberryScreenplay
• Ronald H. GilbertProducer
• David SusskindProducer
• Philip RoseProducer
• Stephen ShalomExecutive Producer
• Charles Lawton Jr.Director of Photography
• Laurence RosenthalOriginal Music Composer
• William A. LyonEditor
• Paul WeatherwaxEditor

A Raisin in the Sun (1961) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Release date

May 28, 1961

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 8m

Rated

12

Budget

$1,500,000

Genres

Drama, Romance

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