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Feb 25, 2008 · A Raisin in the Sun: Directed by Kenny Leon. With Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Sanaa Lathan, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad. An African-American family struggles with poverty, racism, and inner conflict as they strive for a better way of life. Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry.
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Conflicts of a struggling African-American family who suddenly come into a financial windfall.
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Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall... — Greg Bruno <burlynerd@usa.net>. Giving entitled people some insight into what must be an infuriating wall ...
Feb 24, 2008 · The staging remains a bit creaky, but none of this diminishes the spirit of the play or the cast’s commitment to the material, which almost seems palpable. It’s still a provocative, powerful ...
Based on the play that inspired a generation, "A Raisin in the Sun" tells the story of a family living and struggling on Chicago's South Side in the 1950s. A fiercely moving portrait of people whose hopes and dreams are constantly deferred, "A Raisin in the Sun" was the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway ...
1961. 2 hr 7 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. A black family living in a cramped Chicago tenement in the 1940s have the opportunity to improve their social standing via an insurance-policy check, but ...
