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1961

A Raisin in the Sun

Directed by Daniel Petrie
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.

Duration

2h 8m

Released

May 28, 1961

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7.7

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Cast17

  • Sidney Poitier
  • Claudia McNeil
  • Ruby Dee
  • Diana Sands
  • Ivan Dixon
  • John Fiedler
  • Louis Gossett Jr.
  • Steven Perry
  • Joel Fluellen

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