Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Sidney PoitierWalter Lee Younger
- Claudia McNeilLena Younger
- Ruby DeeRuth Younger
- Diana SandsBeneatha Younger
- Ivan DixonAsagai
- John FiedlerMark Lindner
- Louis Gossett Jr.George Murchison
- Stephen PerryTravis Younger
- Joel FluellenBobo
- Louis TerrelHerman
Recommendations
- 100
TV Guide Magazine
Since much of the action takes place in the tiny apartment, director Petrie had to pull out all the stops to keep it from being stage-bound, and, with the help of cinematographer Lawton, he succeeded. - 100
CineVue
At once a searing, affirming and defiant portrayal of race, poverty and frustrated aspiration in America. - 89
Austin Chronicle
A superlative cast vividly captures the turbulence of this classic drama about the constrictions caused by race in postwar Chicago. - 88
Chicago Tribune
A very fine and strongly acted, if somewhat stagebound, adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's great, moving African-American family drama. [06 Apr 2007, p.C8] - 70
Chicago Reader
It does have enough gritty insights and (for the time) strikingly accurate production details to keep the level of interest up.
