A Raisin in the Sun

Name: A Raisin in the Sun
Genre: Drama
Released: May 29, 1961
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 87
Cast: Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Joel Fluellen, John Fiedler

1961

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: May 29, 1961 | Approved

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

Summary: A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

Director: Daniel Petrie

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 128 min

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Christopher Machell

At once a searing, affirming and defiant portrayal of race, poverty and frustrated aspiration in America. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Since much of the action takes place in the tiny apartment, director Petrie had to pull out all the stops to keep it from being stage-bound, and, with the help of cinematographer Lawton, he succeeded. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

A superlative cast vividly captures the turbulence of this classic drama about the constrictions caused by race in postwar Chicago. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

A very fine and strongly acted, if somewhat stagebound, adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's great, moving African-American family drama. [06 Apr 2007, p.C8]

Don Druker

It does have enough gritty insights and (for the time) strikingly accurate production details to keep the level of interest up. Read full review

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