A Raisin in the Sun
by Daniel Petrie
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Actor: Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Ruby Dee, Sidney PoitierDirector: Daniel Petrie
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Charles Lawton Jr.
Editor: Paul Weatherwax
Editor: William A. Lyon
Producer: David Cogan
Producer: David Susskind
Producer: Philip Rose
Writer: Lorraine Hansberry
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of A Raisin in the Sun
DVD Review: A Raisin in the Sun
Summary: 5 Stars
An important movie in the early 60s, it is still as potent as ever.This movie is a legitimate work of art.DVD Review: A Raisin in the Sun
Summary: 5 Stars
Loved it. Ordered a whole bunch of Poitier's movies after listening to his book, "The Measure of a Man." I found that all his movies had meaning, unlike today's nonsense and violence. DVD Review: My mother Loves this Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
After seeing the remake of this movie I was interested in seeing the original version. My mother displayed her desire to me to own the original version on DVD because it is one of her favorite movies. I recently purchased this movie and gave it to my mother for Valentine's day and she was very happy.DVD Review: great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
the message, the actors were all great. the puffy remixed version, can't be compared. i like sanai lathan and patricia rashad, but they could've found someone better for puffy's part. DVD Review: An American Classic In Black And White
Summary: 5 Stars
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" So begins what is perhaps Langston Hughes' most famous poem "A Dream Deferred" and ends with the line, "Or does it explode?" The writer Lorraine Hansberry lifted the quotation from Hughes' powerful poem for her equally powerful award-winning play that ultimately became the 1961 film starring Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands, directed by Daniel Petrie for which Ms. Hansberry wrote the screenplay.
It is safe to say that America had never seen a film quite like this one coming not that long after Brown v. Board of Education and on the eve of the racial change of the 1960's. I saw the film in Syracuse, New York in 1964; and as a white Southerner, I was so pleased with myself. Now over 40 years later it has only gotten better with time. Sad to say, one need only drive though practically any neighborhood in any city in any state in the union to see that unfortunately forty years after the passage of the Federal Fair Housing Act the pupose of which was to make racial discrimination in housing illegal and to promote integration many African American familes experience what the Younger family did in Chicago. They are not welcome in an all-white neighborhood and are confronted with racial prejudice when they try to purhase a home. Our nation remains racially segregated.
But the film is much more than about race. It is also about the conflict of generations and between husbands and wives. It is about pride and dreams, living your dreams through your children, the importance of family, and redemption through love. As the matriarch of the family Lena Younger says, you should never stop loving someone, particularly when they are at the lowest: "There is always something to love."
There is so much conflict in this wondrous film that it practically explodes. The acting by everyone is impeccable. Sidney Poitier, who for years was the only black actor to have received an Oscar for best actor ("Lilies of the Field") should have won an academy award for his performance as Walter Lee Younger. His confrontation with the white representative from the Community Improvement Association is as good as acting gets. "We are going to try to be good neighbors." Of course Ruby Dee is an American treasure. And Claudia McNeil is magnificent as the matriarch of the family, its moral center, who seeps love and compassion although her love is tough. There is one powerful scene (of many) where she makes her daughter Beneatha all full of dreams of Africa and medical school and no religion repeat: "In my mother's house there is a God."
If there is any lover of movies alive today who hasn't seen this particular version of this truly American story, you owe it to youself to rent what is one of the best American films ever made.
Description of A Raisin in the Sun
A RAISIN IN THE SUN is a groundbreaking drama celebrating the human spirit featuring an electrifying performance by Academy Award? winner Sidney Poitier (Best Actor Lilies of the Field 1963). The Younger family frustrated with living in their crowded Chicago apartment sees the arrival of a $10000 insurance check as the answer to their prayers. Matriarch Lena Younger (Claudia McNeil) promptly puts a down payment on a house in an all-white suburban neighborhood. But the family is divided when Lena entrusts the balance of the money to her mercurial son Walter Lee (Poitier) against the wishes of her daughter (Diana Sands) and daughter-in-law (Ruby Dee). It takes the strength and integrity of this African-American family to battle against generations of prejudice to try to achieve their piece of the American Dream.System Requirements: Running Time 127 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?NR UPC:?043396009196 Manufacturer No:?0919Lorraine Hansberry's play is given sensitive treatment by filmmaker Daniel Petrie (The Bay Boy). Sidney Poitier heads a fine cast in the story of an African American family in Chicago who are struggling with mixed aspirations, not enough money, conflicts over religion, and institutional racism. The film is pretty much set-bound (as plays adapted for the screen sometimes are), but the drama is intense and moving. --Tom Keogh
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