SimilarFilm
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...
128 minDramaRomance
TMDb7.7/10149 votes
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.
Country: United States
Director: Daniel Petrie
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
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)
Keywords
Plot:gravehousewiferacial segregationbased on play or musicalracismurban settingracial tensionracial prejudiceneighborhooddiscriminationangrycomplexcautionarydramaticcondescendingdisrespectfulenragedharsh
