A raisin in the sun [DVD video]

Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.

General Note:

Title from container.

Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.

Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio).

Special features: disc one. New, restored 4K digital transfer ; interview from 1961 with playwright/screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry ; A dream realized: new interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine ; Poitier's Walter Lee: new interview with film scholar Mia Mask, coeditor of Poitier revisited ; interview from 2002 with director Daniel Petrie ; trailer -- disc two. episode of Theater talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis ; excerpt from Black theatre: the making of a movement (1978), with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr. -- in booklet: an essay by scholar Sarita Cannon and author James Baldwin's 1969 tribute to Hansberry, "Sweet Lorraine."

Performers:

Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett, Stephen Perry, Joel Fluellen, Louis Terkel, Roy Glenn.

Contents:

disc one. [Feature film and supplements] -- disc two. [Supplements].

Technical Details:

DVD; region 1 NTSC; 16:9 wide screen presentation (1.85:1); Dolby digital mono; black & white.

Subject Term:

African American families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.

Home ownership -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.

Insurance claims -- Drama.

Genre:

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Film adaptations.

Feature films.