A Raisin in the Sun 1961

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

A Raisin in the Sun

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Drama Romance

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.

Top Billed 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

Release Date 1961-05-28
Runtime 2h 8m
Directors Daniel Petrie, Charles Lawton Jr., Sam Nelson
Producers Ronald H. Gilbert, David Susskind, Philip Rose, Stephen Shalom
Writers Lorraine Hansberry, Lorraine Hansberry