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.
Directed byDaniel Petrie
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 8m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- May 28, 1961
- Budget
- $1,500,000
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Trailers & teasers
![A Raisin in the Sun (1961) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/e_NvQSLv7rI/hqdefault.jpg)
Featuring
Cast & crew
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
- Directed by
- Daniel Petrie
- Written by
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Produced by
- Ronald H. GilbertDavid Susskind
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