A widow (Phylicia Rashad), her son (Sean Combs) and other members of a black family have differing ideas on how to spend a $10,000 life-insurance check.
mother, maid, chauffeur, widow, daughter, son, engaging, emotional, tender, chicago, household, insurance, integration, family, moving, dreams, rise, sacrifice, 1950s
... Raisin works well on television, like so many other fifties plays that tended toward the Freudian and claustrophobic, with their Munch-scream close-ups and slammed Ibsen doors.
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