Outstanding adaptation of a groundbreaking play...
“A Raisin in the Sun” is about a working class African American family from Chicago at a watershed moment in their lives. Walter Lee Younger (Sidney Poitier) is a chauffeur and the family’s primary breadwinner. His wife, Ruth (Ruby Dee), and his mother, Lena (Claudia McNeil), work as domestics to supplement the family income. They all live crowded into a two-bedroom apartment with his younger sister, Beneatha (Diana Sands), and Walter Lee and Ruth’s young son. Walter Lee dreams of freeing his family from its bleak lifestyle by hard work and finding the right business opportunity. After the death of Walter Lee and Beneatha’s father, the family receives his life insurance check for $10,000 and conflict arises as how to spend it. Lena Younger wants to buy a house for the family and help put her daughter through med school, but Walter has other plans.<br /><br />Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry, “A Raisin in the Sun” is set mostly in the Younger’s cramped apartment. Asagai (Ivan Dixon), a friend of Beneatha’s from school, represents modern ideas by an outsider that  foresee the 50s and 60s civil rights movement. As Walter looks into a business venture that will provide his family security, an unexpected visit from a homeowners association representative (John Fiedler) is welcomed by the Youngers, excited at the prospect of owning a home of their own.<br /><br />Performances are uniformly excellent. Though the film is dialogue-heavy, as each family member expresses his/her hopes for the future, director Daniel Petrie keeps the pace brisk. He opens the action only briefly to show Walter Lee at work, the bar where he escapes to drown his sorrows, and the house that promises a brighter future for them all.<br /><br />Poitier is outstanding, conveying a range of emotions from exhilaration, humor, affection, anger, surprise, to utter defeat. His Walter Lee is a walking bomb on a short fuse, pent-up frustration eating him from the inside. Walter teases Beneatha about her desire to become a doctor, verbally jousts with Asagai about the world and its expectations and, though he loves his strong-willed mother, argues with her about what to do with the money.<br /><br />Ms. McNeil’s Lena Younger is an imposing figure. Her conversations with Walter are especially powerful as she attempts to talk sense to him while not diminishing his dignity. She is wise and loving, her convictions a formidable match for Walter’s stubbornness.<br /><br />Bonus extras are plentiful and provide a thorough understanding of the creation of the play, its importance to black theatre, and the movie’s planning, filming, and reception by audiences and critics.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be on Broadway and is now an immortal part of the theatrical canon. Two years after its premiere, the production came to the screen, directed by Daniel Petrie. The original stars—including Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee—reprise their roles as members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money. Vividly rendering Hansberry’s intimate observations on generational conflict and housing discrimination, Petrie’s film captures the high stakes, shifting currents, and varieties of experience within black life in midcentury America. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Interview from 1961 with playwright and screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry • New interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine, on the real-life events on which the play is based • Episode of Theater Talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis • Excerpt from The Black Theatre Movement: From “A Raisin in the Sun” to the Present, a 1978 documentary, with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr. • New interview with film scholar Mia Mask, editor of Poitier Revisited • Trailer • PLUS: An essay by scholar Sarita Cannon.