1961DramaRomance2h 8m

A Raisin in the Sun

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.

Information

StatusReleased
Original Languageen
Budget$1,500,000

Keywords

gravehousewiferacial segregationbased on play or musicalracismurban settingracial tensionracial prejudiceneighborhooddiscriminationangrycomplexcautionarydramaticcondescendingdisrespectfulenragedharsh

Production

Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures