A Raisin in the Sun
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Movie Reviews of A Raisin in the Sun
Movie Review: A Raisin in the Sun
Summary: 5 Stars
Based on Lorraine Hansberry's play, Daniel Petrie's magnificent "A Raisin In The Sun" provides an ideal star vehicle for young Poitier's explosive talent. The actor projects barely suppressed rage as he pleads with Claudia McNeil's resolute matriarch, who wants to use her money to buy a new home. Poitier's raw desperation is palpable as his one chance to better himself slips away. See this for Poitier's intense performance, and McNeil's equally powerful turn as his motherMovie Review: Superb! Don't Miss This Movie!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a superbly written and superbly acted "play" transformed into a movie. This must be among the "Ten Best Movies of All Time". If you haven't seen this one, PLEEESE get it. You won't be disappointed. Comments to email: boland7214@aol.coMovie Review: A Raisin in the Sun
Summary: 5 Stars
A movie taken from the Lorraine Hansberry play about a black family in Chicago circa 1966, who try to focus on family life and the possiblility of moving out of the ghetto, when an insurance check for $10,000 has come due. The family is frustrated with living in their crowded Chicago apartment and when the $10,000 arrives, they see this as an answer to everyone's prayers. But what to do with the money? Pay tuition for college, open a liquor business in Chicago, or buy a house for the now extending family in an all white suburb of Chicago.
The Matriarch "Lena Younger" is wonderfully and beautifully played by Claudia McNeil, the Son aka "Brother/Walter Lee Younger" is played by the incomparable Sidney Poitier in what I think is one of his best roles ever. Daughter/Sister "Beneatha aka Benny" played by the beautiful and talented Diana Sands is great as the "non-assimilationist" daughter who is smitten with an African Exchange Student and dates a wealthy black collegian. Ruby Dee is Walter Lee's wife "Ruth", who struggles with a "surprise" pregnancy and her role as wife/daughter-in-law/and mother in this mercurial family. The role of "Travis Younger" the son/grandson/nephew is played with total childhood reality by Stephen Perry. The supporting cast of Louis Gosset Jr. (George Murchison), Ivan Dixon (Joseph Asagai), Bobo (Lonne Elder), and John Fiedler (Mark Lindner) all do terrific jobs in their respective roles.
This is one of the best movies I have ever seen and as someone who was a child when all of this was going on, I remember it vividly as if it were yesterday. The relationships of all the family members is so much a memory of my childhood that it is watched with relish everytime I watch it with my own children.
A movie to be watched and enjoyed by the entire family.
Movie Review: Remind us we are in this together
Summary: 5 Stars
The mistakes we make affect all those around us and in those mistakes we still have the one powerful gift to restore things. LOVE.Movie Review: A Raisin in the Sun
Summary: 5 Stars
An important and revealing film re African American history and culture and American history/develoopment;powerful dialogue, fine acting, sensitive directing; Hansberry's story has immense relevance/impact today.