- HD 1080
- Runtime: 128m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Daniel Petrie
- Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon
- keywords: grave, housewife, racial segregation, based on play or musical, racism, urban setting, racial tension, racial prejudice, neighborhood, discrimination, angry, complex, cautionary, dramatic, condescending, disrespectful, enraged, harsh
- Production_studio: Columbia Pictures
- Slogan: The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...
- The A Raisin in the Sun is featured in the top rankings of 1961
- #4 in Top Romance Movies of 1961
- #12 in Top Drama Movies of 1961
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.