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- PG-13
- ABC
- PG-13
- ABC
Summary This classic story comes to the small screen equipped with an all-star cast that includes Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, John Stamos, Sean Combs, Sanaa Lathan and more.
- PG-13
- ABC
- PG-13
- ABC
A Raisin in the Sun
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 25, 2008
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Summary This classic story comes to the small screen equipped with an all-star cast that includes Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, John Stamos, Sean Combs, Sanaa Lathan and more.
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
11% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
81
89% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
11% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Combs does a great, great job--especially for someone who isn't known as an actor. And the rest of this cast glows. Don't miss it--and don't let your kids miss it either.
It's a beauty--in many ways richer than the Broadway production--and should not be missed.
This knockout adaptation of the Lorraine Hansberry play is a model of both the pure power of stage acting and TV’s potential to bring us up close to that acting without deadening it.
No one will mistake this well-produced but inevitably dialogue-driven piece for pure cinema, but Leon and adapter Paris Qualles open up the play just enough to avoid the usual stage-to-screen claustrophobia.
[The audience] will see some wonderful acting, especially from the luminous McDonald as Walter Lee's wife, Ruth. And they will see the movie debut of director Leon, who has helped turn these fine stage performances into convincing movie work, with the help of a screenplay by Paris Qualles that opens up the play into small additional scenes that will be a special pleasure for those who already know the play on stage.
The women are the more critical characters, in any case, and Rashad, McDonald and Lathan give the show all the power it needs for its uncomfortable and frustrating yet in some ways hopeful ride through the life of a black family in 1950s Chicago.
It seems more a collection of cliches than the revered semiautobiographical work of the first black woman playwright to land on Broadway, a woman whose father fought a restrictive racial covenant all the way to the Supreme Court to keep his family's home in a white Chicago neighborhood in the '30s.
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Production Company:
- Sony Pictures Television
- Storyline Entertainment
- Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group
- Zadan / Meron Productions
Initial Release Date: Feb 25, 2008
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: PG-13
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Online Film & Television Association
• 4 Wins & 7 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
