A Raisin in the Sun

Name: A Raisin in the Sun
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1961-05-28
Duration: 2 h 8 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon

The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Timing: 2:8 (128 min)

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Budget

$1 500 000

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Director

Daniel Petrie

Actors

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

Ronald H. Gilbert, David Susskind, Philip Rose, Stephen Shalom

Camera operator

Charles Lawton Jr.

Composer

Laurence Rosenthal

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Editing

Paul Weatherwax, William A. Lyon
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Short description

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.