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29 Jun, 2016
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2 of 2 found this helpful While entirely too many of today's films lean heavily upon contrived plots, special effects, gratuitous sex or violence and glitzy settings, "A Raisin In the Sun" is basically a modest, faithful translation of Lorraine Hansberry's stage play to the screen. Only a few scenes take us briefly outside of the humble, inner-city apartment which oscillates between a pressure cooker of submerged rage and frustrated expectations, and the would-be launching pad of brave hopes, long-nurtured dreams and occasional bursts of joy. Though specifically about the "Black experience", so universal are the individual dramas and emotions portrayed as to parallel Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" or Kazan's "On the Waterfront"; that is, a film about human struggle to which few cannot relate.
The ensemble cast is of a strength rarely seen. Sidney Poitier is the film's titular star, strongly buttressed by Ruby Dee and Diana Sands, but it is Claudia McNeil who anchors and drives this emotional vehicle with one of the most
magnificent performances I have ever seen an actress deliver. She is perfection. Her great, stolid body barely moves,yet in her face is a power and intensity which thoroughly command attention. Her every look is riveting, her presence and every pronouncement of irresistible gravity. With a combination of intractable love and fierce determination, she shapes and brings to fulfillment the tortured dreams of a family which is at turns both ordinary and remarkable, as is every family blessed with an indomitable matriarch. All but the hardest hearts will soar at the film's conclusion. "A Raisin In the Sun" is a must-have film for any serious collection.