The 1961 film version of A Raisin in the sun, with a screenplay by the author, Lorraine Hansberry, won an award at the Cannes Film Festival even though one-third of the actual screenplay Hansberry had written had been cut out. The film did essentially bring Hansberry's extraordinary play to the screen, but it failed to fulfill her cinematic vision. Now with this exciting landmark edition of Lorraine Hansberry's original script for the movie of A Raisin in the sun that audiences never viewed, readers have at hand an epic, eloquent work capturing not only the life an dreams of a black family, but the Chicago- and the society- that surround and shape them. Important changes in dialogue and exterior shots, a stunning shift of focus to her m