A Raisin in the Sun
1961, NR, 128 min.
Directed by Daniel Petrie, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett.

The last film in the Millennium’s monthlong festival is this intelligent screen adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking play. A superlative cast vividly captures the turbulence of this classic drama about the constrictions caused by race in postwar Chicago.

This article appears in February 16 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.