

Emotions are intense. Walter’s anger at being a chauffeur emerges in virtually every word he speaks. The heat of Beneatha’s intense ambitions radiates from her. Lena is stubborn in her love for her family and her desire to give them a real home.
Raisin in the Sun was first produced in 1959 on Broadway, where it was nominated for five Tony Awards. The author, Lorraine Hansberry, was one of the first to depict a realistic African-American family with its love, bitterness and longings. Sadly, Hansberry died of cancer at the age of 34.
The aspirations and discrimination in Hansberry’s play predicted later events of the 60s and 70s: the civil rights movement, the assassination of Martin Luther King, urban riots, feminism, and interest in African roots. Beneatha’s indifference to marriage, and her dream to become a doctor, foreshadows the feminist movement of the 1960s. Her African boyfriend Joseph Agasai (Ivan Dixon) encourages her interest in her African roots.
There are no stereotypes here: all of their desperation, and their love, is genuinely human. The strong cast makes them achingly real.
The title Raisin in the Sun comes from the poem A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes: What happens to a dream deferred?...Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
The themes of Raisin in the Sun are still valid today, particularly discrimination and economic hardship. The film reminds us of where we’ve been and where we still need to go.
A Raisin in the Sun is an Drama, Romance movie that was released in 1961 and has a run time of 2 hr 8 min. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 8.0 and a MetaScore of 87.
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