The read
Scores higher than 89% of the 813 1960s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes91%
Metacritic87/100
152 audience votes
Key crew
- Daniel PetrieDirector
- Lorraine HansberryScreenplay
- Laurence RosenthalOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Sidney PoitierWalter Lee Younger
- Claudia McNeilLena Younger
- Ruby DeeRuth Younger
- Diana SandsBeneatha Younger
- Ivan DixonAsagai
- John FiedlerMark Lindner
- Louis Gossett Jr.George Murchison
- Steven PerryTravis Younger
- Joel FluellenBobo
- Louis TerrelHerman
- Roy GlennWillie Harris
- George DeNormandEmployer (uncredited)
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Themes
gravehousewiferacial segregationbased on play or musicalracismurban settingracial tensionracial prejudiceneighborhooddiscriminationangrycomplex
The Best Movies of 1961
A Raisin in the Sun is #8 of 49
