A Raisin in the Sun in 35mm

Showings

The Roxy Theater Screen 3 Sun, Feb 6, 2022 7:30 PM
Film Info
Series:Essential Cinema
Run Time:128 min
Release Year:1961
Country:US
Genre:Drama
Sponsored By:Farmers State Bank
Format:35 MM
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Daniel Petrie
Cast Members:Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil
Writers:Lorraine Hansberry

Description

The Roxy Theater is proud to present Essential Cinema, a monthly series of the most iconic and important films the artform has to offer. 

Lorraine Hansberry’s immortal A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway. Two years later, the production came to the screen, directed by Daniel Petrie. The original stars—including Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee—reprise their roles as members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. The Youngers await a life-insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how to use the money. Vividly rendering Hansberry’s sharp observations on generational conflict and housing discrimination, Petrie’s film captures the high stakes, shifting currents, and varieties of experience within black life in midcentury America.

Presented in 35mm. Sponsored by Farmers State Bank.