A Raisin in the Sun
The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...
7.7
153 votes
May 28, 1961
2h 8m
Drama
Romance
Overview
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
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
BoboL
Louis Terrel
Herman
Roy Glenn
Willie HarrisG
George DeNormand
Employer (uncredited)
Bob Sweeney
Insurance Company Agent (uncredited)T
Thomas D. Jones
Chauffeur (uncredited)R
Rudolph Monroe
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