Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee star in the movie of the award-winning play A Raisin in the Sun (1961).

Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, Sanaa Lathan, and John Stamos all return to reprise the roles they originally played on Broadway in this {/made for television} take on Lorraine Hansbury's timeless play about a 1950s-era Chicago family longing for a better life. Walter Lee has died, and now his widow Lena Younger (Rashad) is about to receive a $10,000 check from her late-husband's insurance company. Everyone in the family dreams about the ways their lives will be changed with the arrival of the money, family matriarch Lena - who longs to retire from her job as a domestic servant for a wealthy white family - in particular. Having lived in a one room tenement apartment ever since she and her late husband originally married, Lena is eager to purchase a house of her own and provide her family with a real home. Lena's son Walter Lee, Jr. (Combs), currently employed as a chauffer, and has recently become taken with the idea of purchasing a liquor store as a means of solving his family's financial woes.

Sean Combs moved into a two-bedroom apartment as part of his preparation for his role in the Broadway musical A RAISIN IN THE SUN

Sean Combs moved into a two-bedroom apartment as part of his preparation for his role in the Broadway musical A RAISIN IN THE SUN

Sean "Diddy" Combs gives Hollywood 411 the behind-the-scenes scoop on his starring role in A Raisin in the Sun.

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs gives Hollywood 411 the behind-the-scenes scoop on his starring role in A RAISIN IN THE SUN.

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Sean Combs moved into a two-bedroom apartment as part of his preparation for his role in the Broadway musical A RAISIN IN THE SUN

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