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A raisin in the sun [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures. - [Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, c1999] - 1 videodisc (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. - Columbia classics . - Columbia classics. .

Based on the stage play by Lorraine Hansberry. Videorecording of the 1961 motion picture. Dual-sided DVD. Widescreen version on one side; normal version ("formatted to fit your TV") on the other.

Producers, David Susskind and Philip Rose ; director, Daniel Petrie ; screenplay, Lorraine Hansberry ; music by Laurence Rosenthal. Producers, David Susskind and Philip Rose ; director, Daniel Petrie ; screenplay, Lorraine Hansberry ; music by Laurence Rosenthal.

Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee.

Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.

Not rated.


DVD.


Subtitled in English, Spanish, Portugese, Chinese, Korean and Thai.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

ISBN: 0767828062

Standard No.: 043396009196

Publisher. No.: 00919 Columbia Tristar

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Feature films.
Film adaptations.