Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon
The Younger family strives to get out of their ghetto neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. When the patriarch of the family passes away and each family member is handed a slice of the insurance ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 22, 2000
Stats: 250 reviews
I believe this is the best version on A Raisin in the Sun. No one can act out the original even if it was in black and white. "In my mother's house there is still GOD"
every family has its problems but when an african american family tries to better its lot in a segregated america they encounter difficulties that stem mostly from social oppression affecting the hopes and dreams of its members. a raisin in the sun is shot like a play with the ...( read more)
This was film about a family's struggle to better themselves and their lives. Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee did an amazing job portraying their characters. Great film!
CLASSIC! Why would they let P.Diddy remake it or act in it on broadway? As the world gone MAD?
One of the most powerful plays ever written in the late 1950s, and is brought to video. This origonal movie, with Sidney Poitier, is one of the most powerful films to tell us the story of a family living in Chicago, during a time when black people did not have as much rights or f...( read more)
(1961 Director: Daniel Petrie) MUST SEE!! MOVING BEYOND WORDS...FAR AHEAD OF THE TIMES!! A very young Sydney Potnier! Read the book (or I think it might have been the play?) in school.....many years ago....Photo is of Ruby Dee female lead in this film..Flixster - Share Movies
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