A Raisin in the Sun (Blu-ray)
The prize-winning drama that warms the screen with its people and its passions...
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 25, 2018
- Originally Released: 1961
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil & Ruby Dee | |
Performer: | Louis Gossett, Jr., Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Stephen Perry, Joel Fluellen & John Fiedler | |
Directed by | Daniel Petrie | |
Edited by | William A. Lyon & Paul Weatherwax | |
Screenplay by | Lorraine Hansberry | |
Composition by | Laurence Rosenthal | |
Art Direction by | Carl Anderson | |
Produced by | David Susskind, Philip Rose & Ronald H. Gilbert | |
Director of Photography: | Charles Lawton, Jr. |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
The themes and words that rang through Broadway cut like a thousand knives in the movie adaptation as well.
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AwardsCircuit.com
It does have enough gritty insights and (for the time) strikingly accurate production details to keep the level of interest up.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3.5/4 --
hits on an intertwined set of realities involving family conflict and deeply embedded social racism that still affects us today
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Q Network Film Desk
[An] intelligent screen adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking play.
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Austin Chronicle
Rating: 5/5 --
Classic based on the Pulitzer prize-winning play.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 5/5 --
Fine adaptation of stage play giving Poitier one of his first hits.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A groundbreaking work that manages to be both specific to the African-American experience and universal in its themes of hope, change, and upward mobility.
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Film Frenzy
Product Description:
Director Daniel Petrie's highly acclaimed drama is a seminal portrait of African American life in the mid-1950s, based on Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking play, that achieved critical and commercial success at a time when the viability of a black audience or a white crossover audience was not considered a possibility. Lena Younger (Claudia McNeil), the stalwart matriarch of an impoverished black family, dreams of owning a nice home in a tidy, integrated suburb. In the meantime, she shares a small apartment on Chicago's South Side with her underemployed adult son, Walter (Sidney Poitier); his emotionally resilient wife, Ruth (Ruby Dee); their child, Travis (Stephen Perry); and her daughter, Beneatha (Diana Sands). Though there's plenty of love in the family, the close quarters breed desperation and discontent. But Lena's prayers are finally answered when she receives a $10,000 insurance policy her husband left behind. The money becomes a symbol for freedom for each member of the Younger family: Lena sees it as a ticket out of the ghetto and into a home of her own, Walter sees it as a chance to regain his dignity and start his own business, while Beneatha dreams of medical school. Their internal struggle threatens to tear the Younger family apart in this moving and claustrophobic vision of life in the bigoted and oppressive environment of a 1950s tenement. Petrie's film features strong and captivating performances from the cast, reprising their 1959 Broadway roles.
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- Sales Rank: 57,992
- UPC: 715515220613
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