A Raisin in the Sun
Movie • 1961 • Drama
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Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
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The father has died before the events of the movie
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The circumstances around a tertiary character’s departure cause considerable distress
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