A raisin in the sun / Columbia Pictures ; producers, David Susskind and Philip Rose ; screenplay writer, Lorraine Hansberry ; director, Daniel Petrie.

A raisin in the sun / Columbia Pictures ; producers, David Susskind and Philip Rose ; screenplay writer, Lorraine Hansberry ; director, Daniel Petrie.

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Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.

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Main Author: Rosenthal, Laurence, 1926- (Composer)
Contributors: Susskind, David, 1920-1987 (Producer), Rose, Philip, 1921-2011 (Producer), Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 (Screenwriter), Poitier, Sidney (Actor), McNeil, Claudia (Actor), Dee, Ruby (Actor), Sands, Diana (Actor), Dixon, Ivan, 1931-2008 (Actor), Fiedler, John, 1925-2005 (Actor), Gossett, Louis, Jr., 1936-2024 (Actor), Perry, Stephen, 1952- (Actor), Fluellen, Joel, 1907-1990 (Actor), Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008 (Actor), Glenn, Roy, 1915-1971 (Actor), Petrie, Daniel (Director), Lawton, Charles, 1904-1965 (Cinematographer), Lyon, William (Film editor), Weatherwax, Paul (Film editor)
Corporate Contributors: Columbia Pictures Corporation., Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Chinese
Korean
Portuguese
Spanish
Thai
Published: [Culver City, Calif.] : [Columbia Tristar Home Video], [©1999]
Series:Columbia classics (DVD videodiscs)
Subjects:
Hansberry, Lorraine, > 1930-1965 > Film adaptations.
Minorities > Illinois > Chicago > Drama.
African American families > Illinois > Chicago > Drama.
Local Note:Emerson College: Gift of Charles L. Hoyt.
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Call Number: [VIDEODSC] DVD 1498
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Call Number: [DVD] PN1995.9.L5 P48 1999
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