A Raisin in the Sun (Criterion Collection)

Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Louis Gossett, Jr. An African-American family living in a tiny Chicago tenement struggles to survive and escape their dire situation. This new 4k digital restoration of the epic film, depicting issues facing the African-American community, includes interviews with playwright/screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry and Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine, an episode of Theater Talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, an excerpt from Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement (1978), a new interview with film scholar Mia Mask, coeditor of Poitier Revisited, an essay by scholar Sarita Cannon and author James Baldwin’s 1969 tribute to Hansberry, "Sweet Lorraine" and more. Directed by Daniel Petrie. 1961/b&w/128 min/NR/widescreen.