Fresh
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.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Overview
Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder.
Director and cast
- Kenny Leon Director
- Sean Combs as Walter Lee Younger
- Sanaa Lathan as Beneatha Younger
- Audra McDonald as Ruth Younger
- Phylicia Rashād as Lena Younger
- Bill Nunn as Bobo
- David Oyelowo as Joseph Asagai
- Ron Cephas Jones as Willy Harris
- Sean Patrick Thomas as George Murchison
- John Stamos as Carl Linder
- Sandi Ross as Earline Johnson
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