Rent A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
3.8 of 5 from 71 ratings
2h 3min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee star as members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. The Youngers await a life-insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how to use the money. The film captures the high stakes, shifting currents, and varieties of experience within black life in midcentury America.
- Actors:
- Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett Jr., Steven Perry, Joel Fluellen, Louis Terrel, Roy Glenn, George DeNormand, Thomas D. Jones, Rudolph Monroe, Ray Stubbs, David Susskind, Bob Sweeney
- Directors:
- Daniel Petrie
- Writers:
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Studio:
- Sony
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Drama
- Collections:
- BAFTA Nominations Competition 2024, Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, Getting to Know: Denzel Washington, Getting to Know: Sidney Poitier, Introducing the EGOT Crowd, The Biggest Oscar Snubs: Part 1
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 01/10/2018
- Run Time:
- 128 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Interview from 1961 with playwright/screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry
- New interview with Imani Perry
- Episode of 'Theater Talk' from 2002
- Excerpt from 'Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement' (1978)
- New interview with film scholar Mia Mask
- Interview from 2002 with director Daniel Petrie
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