A Raisin in the Sun

7.7/10 TMDB1961Drama128 minutes

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

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

John Fiedler

Mark Lindner

Ivan Dixon

Asagai

Sidney Poitier

Walter Lee Younger

Louis Gossett Jr.

George Murchison

Bob Sweeney

Insurance Company Agent (uncredited)

Ruby Dee

Ruth Younger

Diana Sands

Beneatha Younger

Joel Fluellen

Bobo

Roy Glenn

Willie Harris

David Susskind

On-screen Trailer Narrator (uncredited)

Steven Perry

Travis Younger

George DeNormand

Employer (uncredited)

Media

6 videos

Sidney Poitier on A RAISIN IN THE SUN Writer Lorraine Hansberry

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