Product Details

• Actors: Starletta DuPois, Lou Ferguson, John Fiedler, Danny Glover, Stephen Henderson
• Directors: Bill Duke
• Writers: Lorraine Hansberry
• Producers: Chiz Schultz, Jaki Brown, Robert Nemiroff, Samuel Paul, Toni Livingston
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Monterey Video
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Run Time: 171 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1569940185
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,705 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the definitive version, April 24, 2000

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Carl Smeller (Fort Worth, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Raisin in the Sun [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have seen this video more than ten times, and I have beenmoved to tears every single time. _A Raisin in the Sun_ is a greatplay, and this video gives you the closest possible experience to seeing the play performed live. A couple other reviewers ... found the acting dry and inferior. I'm dumbfounded by this reaction. Danny Glover and Esther Rolle are absolutely brilliant. By contrast, I found the 1961 version starring Sidney Poitier to be overly melodramatic in tone. When Poitier as Walter Lee breaks down, he raves like a lunatic. When Danny Glover breaks down, it's scary because he is so believable. As a college professor, I have shown this video to many classes and have always gotten good reactions. If you want to see a great production of one of the monuments of the American theater, I can't recommend this video highly enough.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Student speaks out, October 31, 2001

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Beca (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Raisin in the Sun [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am a high school student who has read this play as an assignment in my english class. After we read the play, this movie was shown. Frankly, I thought the movie was fantastic. Everyone in my rambunctious class was silent because this movie was sssoooo good. While many say that Danny Glover is the best part of the movie, I think that the woman who plays Mama is far superior. She is exactly how I pictured Mama, with the right attitude to match. Although the movie is three hours long, it is worth seeing. This work is truly one of the best plays in period American literature.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 3 Wonderful Hours in the Younger's Apartment, February 5, 2000

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Daniel G. Secrest (Detroit, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Raisin in the Sun [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is almost 3 hours long and the only setting is inside one apartment. Amazingly, it is fantastic. It's like going to see a live play. The quality of the writing and the acting (especially Danny Glover) is enough to make the film supremely entertaining and uplifting.