"A Raisin in the Sun" TV adaptation of 2004 Revival at 8PM on ABC — Page 2

That scene just solidified Rashad's Emmy and Golden Globe nominations - if not, the win.

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This may have been mentioned before, but does anyone know if they will realease this on DVD? Or if someone will put it up on youtube cause I missed the last half hour

Of course it'll end up on DVD. Just look at those names! And I'm sure the ratings are gonna be larger than smaller.

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Sean Combs is the worst part of this production. He shouldn't try to be an actor at all. Especially with three women who are amazing.

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That last scene made combs ok for me. But honestly I'm still greatly bothered that this opportunity was given to him when there are so many black actors who would kill for this.

The underscoring has been really distracting, and the editing over-all has bothering me a lot. A lot of important moments have been rushed.

The end of this play (/movie) is so beautiful. It gets me every time. I really enjoyed it over-all, but I do wish that a few things hadn't been cut out. O well.

Brava to the women!

I thought it was pretty well done, I agree Combs and Stamos seem out of place and the women are, in fact, running circles around Combs, but he wasn't bad, still no Sidney Poitier though. Taking the scene with Bobo and Walter out onto the stoop kinda lessend the effect for me, it worked better in that small room with everyone there to watch the crash and burn.

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I thought everyone (except for John Stamos) did an outstanding job. I am so mad at myself for not seeing this when it was on Broadway. Having seen Audra in Ragtime, I believe the woman walks on water.

According to Amazon.com, it will be released on DVD on May 6, 2008!

I'm praying BroadwayBaby...i missed it as well

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McDonald appeared to be having some difficulties with her character in the beginning, I thought.

Rashad is AMAZING! Combs... not so much.

I thought it was a great adaptation with some amazing performances.

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What an awful production/movie! It was A Raisin in the Sun Diet Lite. There was no grit! Sean Combs were terrible; he doesn't have the chops for the role. Rashad was okay, but nothing special. Audra was so-so and , to me, not convincing in the role. The woman who played Beneatha was pretty much one note. John Stamos was even worse than Combs.

The music was awful. I've heard better in an elevator.

Some of the "opening up" of the play worked. It looked like some of Lorraine Hansberry's unfilmed original screenplay was used as a starting point. The final shot of going up the stairs to the bright blue sky was a major mistake because it gave the story a happy ending. When the play was first done in 1959, many people felt the ending was happy, but as Hansberry noted, life in Clybourne Park isn't going to be easy.

What sunk the show, along with the talentless Mr. Combs were the endless commercials. They sucked the drama, life and tension out of the play. The visuals in every commercial undercut the play and turned it into a quaint little period piece. The previews for the new Tyler Perry movie were too much. Talk about pleasing "Captain, Mistuh, Bossman."

I've seen the 1961 movie version with the original Broadway cast. It's okay, but it's too stage like. To get a real sense of the play and why it still packs a punch and has something to say, find a copy of the production shown on American Playhouse with Danny Glover as Walter Lee and Esther Rolle as Lena. They and the rest of the cast, act circles around Combs and Company.

I was disappointed. I loved the women but maybe it was the commercials - it just didn't build the way I needed it to. I should have Tivo'd it and skipped the commercials - maybe that would have been a smarter way for me to watch it. And sorry, Combs just didn't cut it for me. His eyes were dead and this being television - the closeness of that did no favors. But Rashad and McDonald made me watch the whole program. And anytime something like this is on regular television - and not some reality program or game show - it's all good!