PG | 2 h 8 min | Drama | 1961
Lorraine Hansberry begins her award-winning play with one word that describes the living room of a poor, mid-20th-century black household: weariness. Weariness has won, Hansberry writes of her characters’ living room, because everything in it has been sat on, used, and scrubbed too often. All pretenses have long since vanished from it. A table here or maybe a chair there has been shifted over the years to hide a worn carpet. Unsurprisingly, weariness and hiding permeate the movie that Hansberry’s play inspired.
