A Raisin in the Sun 1961
The first filmed adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's landmark Broadway play, Daniel Petrie's A Raisin in the Sun (1961) still rings true for all the right and wrong reasons. It stars Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Claudia McNeil as three divided members of a Chicago family who'd love nothing more than to escape their cramped apartment...but they all have different ideas on how to do it. Their plans all come from the same source: a $10,000 life insurance check issued to matriarch Lena Younger (McNeil) after the recent death of her husband. Lena plans to put a down payment on a roomy house in the suburbs and send her daughter Beneatha (Diana Sands) to medical school. But her brash son Walter Lee (Poitier) has bigger ambitions: to invest all $10,000 in a liquor store with two friends and, hopefully, make a lot more money in the long run. Walter's wife Ruth (Dee), meanwhile, is trapped in the middle; she wants to support her husband, but his short temper and impatience have been straining their marriage in recent years. Their son Travis (Stephen Perry), who sleeps on the living room couch, rarely sees them fight but it's practically unavoidable.

Director: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee
Country: USA
Genre: Drama

BD50, 2xDVD | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 02:08:03 | 44.5 Gb + 10.6 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Extras:
• Interview from 1961 with playwright/screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry (23:45)
• "A Dream Realized" new interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine (24:57)
• "Poitier's Walter Lee" new interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited (24:47)
• "Theater Talk" 2002 TV episode featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis (26:43)
• "Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement" documentary excerpt (40 mins), with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr. (10:07)
• Interview from 2002 with director Daniel Petrie (6:45)
• Trailer (2:48)

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