Sidney Poitier stars in this screen version of the play by Lorraine Hansberry. When the Younger family receive a substantial insurance payment after the death of their patriarch, the money provides each of them with the opporunity to escape from their cramped Chicago apartment. Walter Lee (Poitier) wants to buy a liquor store, his mother Lena (Claudia McNeil) wants a house and Walter's sister Ruth (Ruby Dee) needs the money to complete medical school.

Will they ever agree on how to spend the money?

Special Features

• Interactive Menus

• Bonus Footage

• Trailers

• Interviews: Interview from 1961 with playwright and screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry; Interview with Imani Perry, author of 'Looking for Lorraine' on the real-life events on which the play is based; Interview with film scholar Mia Mask, editor of 'Poitier Revisited'

• Other Documentary: Excerpt of 'The Black Theatre Movement: From 'A Raisin in the Sun' to the Present', a 1978 documentary with new introduction from director Woodie King Jr.