All language subtitles for A.Raisin.in.the.Sun.2008.WEBRip.x264-RARBG eng

MAN:
What happens to
a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like
a raisin in the sun?

Pull it in up here.

Or fester like a sore,
and then run?

Does it stink
like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over,
like a syrupy sweet.

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Come on, Johnson,
I'm out.

And there's
still hot water.

Morning, Lena.

Morning, Earline.

[BABY CRYING]

[CAR ENGINE FALTERING]

Hi.
Morning.

-Watch your step.
-Morning.

[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]

[ALARM CLOCK RINGS]

Walter, it's after seven.

You're gonna be late.

WALTER:
Travis out
of the bathroom yet?

No, not yet,
but he will be soon.

And what's the point
in having an alarm clock

if you don't get up
when it goes off?

What I need an alarm clock for
when I got you?

Only problem is, I can't just
hit a button and turn you off.

Woman.

What kind of eggs you want?

WALTER:
Not scrambled.

Where the paper?

Where it always is.

What's your problem
this morning?

I don't have a problem.

And I hope you don't
volunteer to become one.

Yeah, you got a problem.

[NEIGHBORS SHOUTING]

What's that boy doing
in the bathroom all this time?

He's just gonna have
to start getting up earlier.

I can't be being
late to work

on account of him
fooling around in there.

No, he is not gonna be
getting up no earlier.

It's not his fault
he can't get to bed at night

because he got a bunch of crazy,
loudmouth,

good-for-nothing people,
running their mouths

in what's supposed to be his
bedroom after 10:00 at night.

Why they gotta
be loudmouths?

Because they are loud,

and nothing that comes out
of them mouths is important.

Not enough to keep
my little boy awake.

That's what you're
mad about, ain't it?

Things I want to talk
about with my friends

just couldn't be important
in your mind, could they?

Come here.

You looking young
this morning, baby.

Looking just like how you looked
when I started courting you.

It's gone now.
You look like yourself again.

[CHUCKLES]
Just eat your eggs.

You know that insurance check
come tomorrow, don't you?

Yeah, I know.

I really don't want
to talk about it.

I'm out,
but you better hurry.

I heard Mr. Johnson
coming down the steps.

The check comes tomorrow,
right, Mama?

Yes, it does, Travis. But it's
too early in the morning

to be talking about money
so just eat your breakfast.

But I need 50 cents.

For what?
For the poor Negroes in history.

For the what?

Teacher says
we gotta do something

about teaching colored
kids about they history.

"Their" history.

And what's that got to do with
50 cents and poor Negroes?

All us kids are putting in
50 cents to buy special books

that'll tell us about the things
the poor Negroes did.

Is that the way the teacher
put it, the "poor Negroes"?

Yes, ma'am. That's the way
she always puts it.

And they need 50 cents for books
for the poor Negroes.

Yes, Mama,
that's what I said.

I don't have it.

But I don't want to be the only
one without the money.

I said I don't
have it, Travis.

Just eat your breakfast.

I'm finished.

Then go on and
make up your bed.

Can I maybe bag groceries
at the market after...

Travis.

And no sweet rolls today,
Mr. Angry Little Man.

You wanna have all your teeth
in your head

when you get older.

I'm gone.

"I know that woman wants me
to kiss her goodbye,

"but I'll fix her.

"I won't kiss her goodbye,
and she'll be sorry.

"I won't kiss her goodbye
for nothing in this world,

"'cause I know that's just what
she wants me to do."

Mama.

Can I please bag groceries?
Can I, Mama?

WALTER:
What is it he want to do?

Bag groceries
after school.

For the poor
Negroes in history, Dad.

Travis. No.

School's raising
money for something.

I gotta have 50 cents.

Why don't you
give it to him?

'Cause we don't have it.

What you going telling the boy
things like that for?

WALTER:
Come here, Travis.

Thanks, Daddy.

In fact,
here's another 50 cents.

Why don't you go buy
yourself some fruit

or take a taxicab to
school or something.

Hot dog! Thanks, Daddy.

Go on to school now.
Don't be late.

All right.

That's my boy.

What?

[LAUGHING]

Know what I was thinking about
in the bathroom this morning?

-No.
-Charlie Atkins.

You remember
Charlie Atkins?

No.

You remember.

He wanted me to go in that
dry cleaning business with him.

Now he's grossing
$100,000 a year.

$100,000.

-That's nice, Walter.
-That could have been me.

That could have been us.

But he stepped up
and I held back.

Walter,
you didn't have any money.

That was true, then.
This is now.

This is our time, baby.

Walter, if you're gonna
talk to me about that check...

Me, Willy and Bobo,
we got this thing figured out.

Bobo?

Walter, I got nothing
to do with that check.

You're tired,
ain't you, baby?

Tired of everything.

Me, the boy,
the way we live.

So tired you couldn't do nothing
to help us out, could you?

Walter.

Mama will listen to you.

You know
she listens to you

more than she listens
to anybody else.

That's all I need you to do.

Tomorrow morning
when you're sitting down

drinking your coffee,

just sip on your coffee,
real easy like,

and talk to her
like what you're saying

ain't really
that important to you.

Then sip on your
coffee some more

and tell her that
you've been thinking about

the deal Walter Lee
is so interested in.

And before you know it,
she'll be listening good,

asking you questions,
and when I come home I can

-fill her in on all the details.
-No, Walter, no.

This ain't no fly-by-night
proposition, baby.

This is real.
They're all real.

All the schemes
that go nowhere.

-Not like this one.
-No, Walter.

Why not?

First of all, I'm not gonna be
pretending anything

with your mother.

Now that's your nonsense.
That's not mine.

And second of all,

the money doesn't
belong to us, Walter.

It's your mother's money.

What's she gonna do with it?

Walter, just finish
your breakfast.

Come on, go to work.
Why can't you listen to me?

Walter, don't shout at me.

That's the only way
I can get through to you.

Walter, please.

Ruth. Ruth, listen.

Now it normally costs $75,000,
to get into something

like we're thinking
about getting into,

but Willy knows somebody
that can get us in for 30.

That's 10,000 three ways.

Plus a little something extra
to spread around

to the people to get
the licenses approved.

-You mean bribes?
-Don't call it that.

This is business. Don't nothing
happen in this world

unless somebody's getting paid.

Walter, eat your eggs.

That's it?
"Eat your eggs"?

Walter, that ain't
none of our money.

This morning I get up.

I go to a bathroom I gotta share
with two floors of people.

I look in the mirror.

Thirty-five years old,
been married 11 years.

I got a boy who sleeps
in the living room.

And all I got to
tell him are stories

about how rich,
white people live.

Walter, eat your eggs.

Damn these eggs.
Damn all the eggs that ever was!

Fine. Just go to work!

WALTER:
See, that says it all,
don't it?

Morning, everybody.

Says just what's wrong
with women today.

Don't know how to
build your man up,

make them feel like
they can be somebody,

-like they can do something.
-Not all women are like that.

Just like there are some men
who actually do something.

No thanks to their women.

I'm gonna start
timing people.

You should get up earlier.

[YAWNING]

[CLEARS THROAT]

Anybody ever tell you,

you a horrible-looking
chick in the morning?

Mama left early
this morning?

RUTH:
Yeah, her last day.

So how's school coming?

Lovely, just lovely.

As if you really care.

I was just wondering if you made
up your mind and everything.

Not too many girls who decide
to become a doctor.

Have we figured out how much
medical school is gonna cost?

RUTH:
Walter, why don't you leave your
sister alone and get on to work?

You know that check
coming tomorrow.

The money belongs
to Mama, Walter.

She can do with it whatever
she wants or do nothing at all.

Maybe just nail the check
up on the wall

and stare at it all day.

It's hers and
not ours. Hers.

Well, now ain't we just
the considerate daughter?

You just got your mother's
best interest at heart,

don't you, girl? But it's okay
if Mama want to take

a few thousand
dollars of her money

to put you through college.
I never asked her to do that.

No, but the line between asking
and just accepting

is big and wide,
ain't it?

What do you want
from me, brother?

To quit school
or just drop dead? Which?

Either one would suit me fine.
Walter!

No, I'm sick of Her Holiness
sashaying around here

like she all high
and mighty.

Me and Ruth, we done made
some sacrifices for you.

Now it's time you
start making some sacrifices.

Don't you be
dragging me into this.

You are in it. Aren't you
the one that's taking in

other people's dirty laundry
to put clothes on her back?

Walter, that ain't fair.

Oh, but it's fair
for Walter not to get anything.

It's not like anybody expects
you to get on your knees, say,

"Thank you, Walter.
Thank you, Mama.

"Thank you, Travis, for wearing
the same shoes last two years."

Well, I do, all right?

Thank you, everybody!
Thank you, God!

Thank you, Walter!
RUTH: Beneatha, stop it.

Forgive me for ever wanting
to be anything at all.

Forgive me.
Forgive me. Forgive me!

Who in the hell ever told you
to go be a doctor, anyway?

You so crazy about messing
with sick people,

why don't you go be a nurse?
I'll be what I want to be.

-With somebody else's money.
-It's Mama's money.

He was my father, too.

And mine and
Travis's grandfather, too.

Brow-beating me isn't gonna
make her give it to you

to invest in some
harebrained scheme.

And I, for one, say
"God Bless Mama" for that.

Are you listening to her?
Are you listening to her?

Will you please
just get out of here?

Get on to work,
come on.

Nobody in this house
is ever gonna understand me.

'Cause you're a nut.

-Who's a nut?
-BENEATHA: You.

Thee is mad, boy.

The world's most backward race
of women, and that's a fact.

And then there's you,

a prophet who would lead us
out of the wilderness

-and into the swamps.
-Bennie, why?

Why do you have to rile your
brother up in the morning?

[CHUCKLING]
'Cause it's too
much fun not to.

I need some money.

Carfare.

What, 50 cents?

[BENEATHA LAUGHING]

[ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC
PLAYING ON RADIO]

If she didn't want to docent
the museum opening,

she didn't have to.

Well, yes I am.
I am going to get involved.

Because this kind of behavior
can't be tolerated.

-Are you leaving?
-Yes.

I've have late meetings,
so don't hold supper.

Bring the car around
for Mr. Arnold.

I need to be at
the Shipley building at noon.

WALTER:
Yes, sir.

LENA:
Priscilla.

I ain't playing no
hide and seek, child.

You got to get to school.

Well, it looks like
you're not in here.

And I know you're
not in that closet.

Not with that big,
hairy spider

-I saw in there yesterday.
-[SCREAMS]

[LAUGHING]

Come on, girl.
Put this on.

School bus will
be here directly.

Are you still leaving?

Yes, I'm still leaving.

And just like yesterday,
I expect you to be a big girl

and mind your mother.

You hear me?

-Yes, Miss Lena.
-Mmm-hmm.

No sass. No pouting.

And no stomping
them little feet.

Turn around.

[NEWSBOY SHOUTING]

[LAUGHING]

Bobo, my man.

So how we looking?

I'm still working on it,

but the check don't
come till tomorrow.

So we have time.
Seen Willy Harris?

I saw him last night.

He asked about you,
I told him you're good.

Your word is
better than gold.

He wants to get
together tonight,

9:00 at
the Green Hat.

Sounds good to me.

I can smell
the money, baby.

[LAUGHING]
Yes, yes, yes.

Let me guess.

This car, he's driving,
and this one's yours.

I'm moving it, sir.
Right away.

Yes, boy, you will.
After I cite you.

You get in your car.

Verdi's La Traviata,
Randolph Hall, Friday night.

You're with me.

That your idea of asking
for a date, George?

It's more than a date
if I'm asking.

Well,
I'll have to get back to you.

Do so. But tarry not.

There are legions of honeys
who would have your place.

Goodbye, George.
I've got a class.

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[BENEATHA REPEATING]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[REPEATING]

Relax. It's coming.

[SIGHS]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[REPEATING]

Very good.

Were all my students
like you,

I would be
an even happier man.

I don't need false flattery,
Asagai.

I do quite well
with the truth.

Well, then, I guess
I shall tell you the truth.

You are not very good.

You are excellent.

You really think so?

Yes. I am happy with you.

I...

I would be even happier
if I could take you out

on one of your dates.

A date?

Isn't that what you call it here
when a man and a woman

go out to spend
time together?

Well, yes, but...

Okay, before you crush
my spirit and ego,

I will withdraw the offer.

Maybe your phone number
will not be so precious.

Well, I suppose
a phone number can't hurt.

I remember well the things
most important to me.

I have a class.

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

You got any more
apples in the back?

It's been a while since
these last saw a tree.

Don't think so.

But you can't be sure
unless you check, right?

How many you want?

A dozen of your best.

Excuse me. Do me a favor,
get me a basket of fresh apples.

-Right away, ma'am.
-Thank you.

Lena, you sure was
up and out early this morning.

It was my last day
on the job, Earline.

My last half-day,
to be exact.

-Go on. You stopped working?
-Yes, indeed.

-Praise God.
-Yes, I do.

I know I can't wait to lay
these bones down and relax.

The day'll come.

Sure came in
high style for you.

What with your
insurance money.

Well, I can't
argue with that.

-Here you go.
-Thank you.

Am I being charged
for the worms, too?

You don't want them, moms,
you don't have to buy them.

I'm not buying them.
I don't want them.

And I'm not your mother.

LENA:
There are other stores.

-Hi.
-Hello.

You wanna try one?

[DOOR OPENS]

[LENA SIGHING]

Oh, no, Ruth.
No, I got this.

Go on, now.
Go on, now.

I have been carrying these
groceries clear across town.

I can make it from
the door to the table.

Well, how was
your last day?

About the same as the first,
far as I can remember.

Well, it must feel good,
hanging it all up.

It ain't
settled in good, yet.

It will,
come Monday morning

when you ain't getting up
at the crack of dawn.

-You'll feel it.
-Look at that poor bed.

That's his idea of
making it up, I guess.

Bless his heart.
He tries, don't he?

No, he don't
half-try at all,

'cause he know you gonna come
right behind him

and fix everything,
just like you always do.

That's how come he don't know
how to do nothing.

You done spoil that boy so.

Well, he's a little boy.

He ain't supposed to know
about housekeeping.

You okay, Ruth?

Yeah, I'm fine, just...

I'm just tired, I've
been ironing all morning.

-Well, leave the rest for me.
-I'll finish.

Is that what you
call retirement?

You gonna come
home so you can

start doing
somebody else's work.

Well, what do you
expect me to do,

sit in that chair all
day till I grow root?

Oh... My poor little plant.

If that plant don't
get more sunlight

than it's been getting,
it's just gonna give up.

Ruth, if you ain't feeling
better tomorrow

than you feel today,
you best stay home.

That woman will have a fit if I
don't show up with her ironing.

Well, let her have it.

What? You ain't never
supposed to be sick?

I'll call her in the morning
and tell her you got the flu.

Why the flu?

White folks
understand about the flu,

that's something they get.

Well, you better call up them
sick with something familiar,

otherwise they gonna think
you were late out drunk,

been caught up in
a fight or something.

Tired as you look, Ruth, you
ain't going nowhere tomorrow.

Well, I've got to go, now.

We need the money.

Most days, we might.

But tomorrow we got us a great,
big old check coming.

Now, wait,
that's your money, Lena.

It ain't got nothing
to do with me.

And we all feel that way.

$10,000.

You know what you ought to do
with that money, Lena?

You ought to go
off somewhere,

like South America
or Europe.

Just go on off and have yourself
a ball for once in your life.

What would I look like,
wandering Europe by myself?

What? Those rich
white women do it.

I read about it
all the time.

Their feet gets itching,
and next thing you know,

they're packed and gone,

waving at the rest of us
from them ocean liners.

Something always told me
I wasn't no rich white woman.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

Well,
what you going to do with it?

I ain't rightly decided, Ruth,
to tell you the truth.

Well, of course,
there is that money

for Beneatha's
medical schooling.

And that much is decided,

'cause Big Walter
would have wanted that.

Yeah.
He believed in dreams,

that man did.

And none of his never
saw fit to come true.

He used to come in here
some nights, he'd be so low.

Just sit down on
that sofa here,

he'd look at the rug,
then he'd look at me,

then he'd look
back at the rug.

I know that must've been
hard for the two of you.

The hardest thing
for me was watching him.

And when we lost
that baby,

I near to thought I was going to
lose that man, too.

You'd never think
one man could grieve so much.

That man loved
his children.

Now, of course that ain't to say
he was no saint or nothing,

'cause could be a little mean
and kind of wild with the women.

But he loved his children.

He used to say,

"Seem like God
didn't seem fit

"to give the black man
nothing but dreams,

"but he did give us children

to make them dreams
seem worthwhile."

He could talk
like that, you know.

Well, look like
maybe you remembered

you had a home
to come back to.

I started my guitar lessons
today.

-Holy Lord.
-You started your what now?

BENEATHA:
Guitar.

You know, an instrument
with six strings.

I know what a guitar is,
little smart mouth.

-Is this something new?
-Not really.

It's something I've been
wanting to do for some time.

How long is it gonna be before
you get tired of this thing

and move on to the next, like
that little play-acting group

you was all stirred
up about last year?

And the horseback riding club
the year before that.

I've seen butterflies
do less flitting, baby.

I just want to learn
to play the guitar.

Is there anything
wrong with that?

Ain't nobody
trying to stop you.

Just wondering why
you got to flit so.

Never landing on
nothing long enough

to have nothing to sink in.

Never done nothing with
that camera equipment

-you brought in here.
-I don't flit.

I experiment with different
forms of expression.

Does that include
horseback riding lessons?

Yes. People have to express
themselves one way or another.

Well, what is it
you're trying to express?

Me.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

That's all right.

I wouldn't expect you
to understand, for God's sake.

LENA: Beneatha.
Would you just listen to her?

Oh, God.

If you use the Lord's name
in vain just one more time...

Mama.
Girl, you are fresh as salt.

Well, if the salt
loses its savor...

LENA:
That'll do now.

Not gonna have you round here
reciting the Scriptures in vain.

How did I manage to get
on everybody's wrong side

just by just
walking into a room?

-Where are you going?
-Got a date.

Oh, my, my. Who with?

Who else?
George Murchison.

-Ooh!
-Ooh!

That's the third
time this month.

-This one seems to be sticking.
-Like a tick on a dog.

They don't have tweezers
big enough to get him off me.

Now, girl, you know
you're sweet on him.

He's all right.
I mean I like him enough

to go out with and stuff.

"And stuff"?
What's "and stuff" mean?

Stop picking on her,
now, Ruth. What does it mean?

I just mean I could
never be serious about George.

He's so shallow.
What do you mean he's shallow?

Girl, he's rich.

You wouldn't even
begin to understand.

Anybody who married Walter
couldn't possibly understand.

Now, what kind of way is that
to talk about your brother?

I do believe she just expressed
an insult to me.

Brother is a blip, Mama.
Let's face it.

-What's a blip?
-I don't know.

I think
she's saying he's crazy.

Not crazy. Brother isn't
really crazy yet.

He's an elaborate neurotic.

You hush your mouth, now.

As for George,
well, George looks good,

he drives a beautiful car,
takes me to nice places.

But if the Youngers
are waiting to see

if little Bennie
is going to tie up the family

with Murchisons,
they're wasting their time.

-Why?
-Ruth, the Murchisons

are honest-to-God,
real live, rich colored folk.

And the only
people in the world

more snobbish than rich white
people are rich colored people.

-And that's a fact.
-You weren't brought up

to dislike people
'cause they're well off.

Don't worry
about it, Lena.

She'll get over
all of this.

Get over it? What're
you talking about Ruth?

Listen, I'm going
to be a doctor.

I'm not worried about who
I'm going to marry yet.

If I even ever
get married.

-If?
-If?

I probably will.
It's just that,

first, I'm going
to be a doctor.

And George, for one, still
thinks that's pretty funny.

I couldn't be
bothered with that.

I'm going to be a doctor,

and everybody around here
better understand that.

Well, of course you're gonna be
a doctor, honey. God willing.

God doesn't have
a thing to do with it.

Now that just wasn't
necessary, Beneatha.

Well, neither is God.

I get sick of
hearing about God.

-Beneatha.
-I mean it.

I get tired of hearing
about Him.

What does He have to do with
anything? Does He pay tuition?

You about to get
your fresh jaw slapped.

That's just what she needs.

Why can't I say what I want to
around here like everybody else?

'Cause you weren't
brought up to talk that way.

Me and your daddy
went to a lot of trouble

to see that you and Walter

were brought up in
the good Christian way.

Well, you and Daddy
were wrong.

Mama, you don't understand.
It's all just a matter of ideas

and God is just one
idea I don't accept.

It's not important.
It's not like I'm gonna

go out and be immoral
or commit crimes

'cause I don't
believe in God.

I don't even think about it.
It's just...

I get so tired of Him getting
credit for all the things

the human race achieves
through its own stubborn effort.

There is simply no God.

There is only man,
and it is he who makes miracles.

[GASPS]

Now, you say after me,

"In my mother's house,
there is still God."

"In my mother's house,
there is still God."

In my mother's house,
there is still God.

There are some ideas we just
ain't gonna have in this house.

Not as long as
I'm head of this family.

Yes, ma'am.

Bennie.

You think you're
a grown woman,

but you're
still a little girl.

What you did was childish
and so you got treated like a...

Like a child.

She said she's sorry.

[LENA SIGHS]

I don't know about
these children, Ruth.

They frightens me.

Lena, you got
good children.

Sometimes,
they don't think clearly,

but you got good children.

No, something
done come down between us.

We don't understand
each other, no more.

It's like we don't none of us
speak the same language.

Walter near
done lost his mind

thinking about
money all the time,

and Beneatha
around here talking

about things I just
don't understand.

What is it, Ruth?
What is it that's changing?

You just got
strong-willed children.

And it takes someone
with a strong head like you

to keep them in line.

It's a good thing, though,

you helping Beneatha
with her school.

This doctor thing sure is
a dream of hers, huh?

Yeah, well,
she deserves it.

Even with all her foolishness,
she work hard in school.

And Walter, well,
it's not like you

to think about one child
without helping the other.

I understand, Ruth,
but we ain't no business people.

We just plain working folk.

Walter Lee says ain't
nobody business people

until they go into business.

Walter Lee says
the colored people

ain't never going to get
anywhere in this world

until they start gambling on
some different kinds of things.

Investments and things.

What done got
into you, girl? Hmm?

Walter Lee done
finally sold you on investing?

No.

No.

Lena, some...

Something done come down
with me and Walter Lee.

I don't know what it is.

He needs something,
you know?

Something I can't give him.

He needs this chance, Lena.

I hear you, Ruth, and I take
what you say to heart.

But I can't throw my husband's
insurance money away

on no investment.

This poor little plant.

Nothing I do
make it no better.

I mean do we even know what
he's talking about investing in?

Ruth?

[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]

[PEOPLE LAUGHING]

I think it's the way to go,
man, liquor stores.

People gonna always
wanna get their taste,

you know what I mean?

That's my feeling exactly.
Without fail,

there are two businesses
you'll find in any city.

Churches and liquor stores.

-And funeral parlors.
-[BOTH LAUGHING]

But I ain't messing around
with no dead people.

Until you become one.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

Where's Willy, man?

Don't worry, man.
He'll be here. You know Willy.

Always got to make a stop
or two on the way.

There he is.
Willy. Over here.

My man, Bobo.
How you doing, brother?

Walter,
good to see you again.

Willy.

My new partners
and you started without me.

Waitress, another
round of suds, please.

What'll you have, Willy?

Scotch, rocks and another one
on the side, beautiful.

So, Bobo,
how's it hanging, man?

Man, you know me.

Just another squirrel in
the world trying to get a nut.

So we ready to
discuss business?

That's why we're here,
ain't it?

I think we're sold
on this liquor store.

Sold?

I'd say it's a can't-miss
investment, Walter.

Look around you.

Everybody in here's sipping on
some kind of liquid refreshment.

Black folks.
They may not have

enough money to rub
two nickels together,

but drink they're gonna do.
Got to do it.

Takes their mind off things.

We was just
talking about that.

All right,
here's the deal.

I talked to some
people in Springfield.

The right people that'll seed
the right pockets

to get our
license approved.

They don't have
no problems with it.

That's what I'm
talking about.

And here's
the beautiful part.

I found the perfect location,

right here on the Southside.
I mean...

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

I mean, we couldn't build us
a better situation than this.

So, how much time we got?

Well, here's the thing.

This perfect spot
ain't likely

to be available
after next week.

Personally, I think we need
to move on this by Monday.

I don't see no
problem with that.

Well, then,

sounds like a deal.

-Cheers.
-[ALL LAUGHING]

-I got to run.
-What?

You cats know
how to reach me.

Your change.

Keep it, sweetheart,

and set my partners up
for the rest of the night.

-WILLY: Bobo.
-BOBO: Thanks, Willy.

-Walter.
-Willy.

I'll see you cats later.

Gentlemen.

Nothing for me.
I got to get home.

I think I'm going to hang around
for a little a bit, man.

You know,
kind of celebrate the future.

Don't you get
in no trouble.

-I'm gonna call you later.
-All right.

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

Morning, doll.
We'll be right with you.

I'm looking for Miss Tilly.

What you want
with Miss Tilly?

It's personal.
Is she here?

I am Miss Tilly.
What you need, child?

Uh...

Come. Follow me.

TRAVIS:
Can't I go outside,
grandma?

That spray stuff stinks.

If I can't go out,
you can't go out.

You finish
all your chores?

-No.
-Where did Mama go?

She said she wasn't
going to work today.

She went to run
a little errand.

But where?

To tend to her business.

Grown-up business.

-What kind of grown up...
-Travis, get out of here.

Just get out of here.
Go on downstairs.

Stay out front and keep a
sharp look out for the mailman.

Yes, ma'am.

And leave them
cockroaches alone.

What they ever
do to you?

LENA:
Don't spray
that boy with that stuff.

Why not?
It's harmless.

You ever see a dead
cockroach around here?

Where did Ruth go, Mama?

To the doctor, I think.

What for?

Beneatha, get up underneath
that couch over there.

Sometimes crumbs get
up underneath there.

-Mama?
-What? I don't know.

At least,
I ain't saying what I think.

You think she's...

I think I ain't saying,
ain't that what I just said?

Of course, I ain't never
been wrong about a woman.

[PHONE RINGING]

Hello.

Bah-ohto you, Asagai.

Come over? Now?

I don't think so. We're
cleaning, and my mother hates it

when people come over and the
house isn't up to her standards.

Do you? For me?

Okay, if just for a minute.

I'll see you then.

LENA:
Tell me you didn't just
invite somebody over?

Oh, Mama,
it's just Asagai.

I don't care if it's
Santa Claus, girl.

Ain't you got no pride?
Look at this place.

The place is fine, Mama.
Besides, it's just Asagai.

He's not judgmental.
He's an intellectual.

-Who?
-Asagai. Joseph Asagai.

I met him at school.
He's from Nigeria.

Hmm.

I don't believe I never
met no African before.

Do me a favor and please don't
ask him any ignorant questions

like do they wear
clothes and carry spears.

If we so ignorant,
maybe you ought

not to be
inviting people here.

It's not that.
It's just that people ask

crazy questions
when it comes to Africa,

like all they know
is Tarzan.

-Well, him, I heard of.
-See?

What? What?

What I need to know
anything about Africa for?

Because it's part
of our heritage.

Why do you give money at the
church for missionary work?

That's to save people.

I'm afraid they need
more salvation

from the British
and the French.

So? You pregnant?

What, is it written
all over my face?

-You are.
-Oh, Lord have mercy.

How far along are you?

Two months.

Oh!

Did you plan it,
or was it an accident?

Mind your own business.

It is my business.

Where's it going to sleep,
on the roof?

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean for it
to come out like that.

I think it's wonderful.

Yeah. Yeah, no,
it's wonderful.

BENEATHA:
Well, it is.

Doctor say everything
going to be all right?

Yeah. She said everything's
gonna be fine.

She?

What doctor you went to?

Ruth, honey, you sick?

What's the matter
with her, Mama?

She gonna be all right.

Women get like this sometimes
when they get with child.

But they going
to be all right.

They just got to relax and put
everything out their mind.

[SHUSHING]

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Oh, my God.
That must be Asagai.

Come on, honey.
Come on.

It's going to be
all right.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Hello, Alaiyo.

Hello.

May I come in?

Yeah, come in.

Please don't mind
how the place looks.

My mother was very upset,

she know I was letting
someone seeing it like this.

You, too, look disturbed.

Look, if it's not
a good time, I can...

No, no, no.

It's never a good
time around here.

Acute ghetto-itis is
all it is. It'll pass.

Well.

So, come in and sit down.

Can I hope that
box is for me?

Yes. Open it.

[EXCLAIMS]

Nigerian music. Thank you.

Tribal Yoruba.
But, keep going.

It's beautiful.
Why did you...

Let me...

[BOTH LAUGHING]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[BOTH LAUGHING]

What's it mean?

You wear it well,
as I knew you would.

-You did?
-Of course.

From the moment
I first saw you at school,

and you pranced up to me

in the most serious
of tones, and said, "Mr. Asagai,

"I would like very much like
to talk to you about Africa,

"because I am looking
for my identity."

[LAUGHING]

And why is that funny?

Well, because I didn't
at first believe it.

And why not?

Because assimilationism
is so popular,

so important in your country
among the blacks and whites.

Everyone must become one
and melt into each other.

I am not an assimilationist.

Perhaps not.

So, do you like them?

-What?
-The robes.

They are from my sister's
personal wardrobe.

You must take
good care of them.

-Your sister?
-Yes, from Lagos.

That's the capital.
But you knew that.

You sent all the way for me?

Well, I cannot wear them.

Joseph.

For you,
I would do much more.

I must be going.

Will you call me Monday?

Yes, I will. We do have
much to talk about.

About identity and time

and feeling.

What sort of feeling
are you talking about, Asagai?

I am not interested in being

someone's little episode
in America.

[LAUGHING]

Yes, that's real funny,
isn't it?

Truthfully, yes.

Every American girl,
white, black and brown,

have said
the same thing to me.

You are all the same
with the same speech.

It seems the world's
most liberated women

are not so liberated at all

or you wouldn't so quickly
jump to the same conclusions.

Mama.
Mama, this is Mr. Asagai.

How do you do, young man?

How do you do,
Mrs. Younger?

Please forgive me for coming
at such an inconvenient time.

That's all right.

I just hope
that you understand

our house don't
always look like this.

Asagai was just leaving,
Mama.

Yeah.

Well, I do hope
that you'll come again.

I would love to hear more
about your country.

I think it's sad the way
our American Negroes

don't know
nothing about Africa,

except Tarzan and all that.

And all that money we been
giving to them churches,

when we need to be helping you
all get liberated from them

Well, yes, ma'am.enchmen
what done taken away your land.

And on behalf of my people,
we appreciate it.

Well, I suspect you better come
around here from time to time,

get yourself
a home-cooked meal.

I think your mama
would like that.

I think my mother
would like that, Mrs. Younger.

And thank you.

Well, I should be off.

I will call you Monday,
Alaiyo.

What is that?
That's African for Beneatha?

No, it's a Yoruba word.

It means, well, roughly,

one for whom bread
or food is not enough.

You are never satisfied.

You are always hungry
for more. That is you.

That's nice.

Well, do come again, Mr...

Asagai. Or Joseph
would do as nicely.

Goodbye.

Mmm...

Well, that's a pretty
young thing

just walked
out of here. Mmm-hmm.

Well,

I guess I see why we done
give up horseback riding

and play-acting
and cameras

and commenced to get
so interested in Africa.

Mama.

Missionaries,
my Aunt Jenny.

[LAUGHING]

What you doing up?

Ain't nothing wrong with me
to be lying in no bed for.

It's 10:30.

Yes, it's 10:30.

The mailman going to come today
just like he come every day.

-He's here. Two doors down.
-Lord have mercy.

Get on down them steps,

and make sure you
don't lose that check.

You mean,
he done finally come.

Lena, what a day this is?

Well, I don't know what
we getting so excited about.

We known for months
he was coming.

Knowing it's coming
and knowing it's here,

there's a difference.
Imagine being able to hold

a piece of paper
in your hand worth $10,000.

I'll take our mail,
Mr. Peete.

I don't think I have
anything for you, Travis.

You got to have a letter,
Mr. Peete.

Grandma's been
waiting for months.

Oh...

I think I have something
for your grandma.

I just don't got
nothing for you.

Got it!

Lord have mercy,
I wish Walter Lee was here.

Come on, open it.
Come on, now, open it.

All right, all right, all right,
child, don't act silly now.

We never been no people
to act silly about no money.

Well, Lena, we ain't never had
no money before. Now open it.

Is that the right
amount of zeros?

Yes, ma'am.
You're rich, Grandma. Rich.

$10,000.

Somebody's idea
of what my Walter was worth.

What's the matter
with Grandma, Mama?

She don't want to be rich?

Why don't you go on outside
and play, baby. Go.

[READING SOFTLY]

If it wasn't for you all,
I'd just put that money away,

or give it to
the church or something.

Lena, that's crazy talk,
and you know it.

And Mr. Younger would tell you
the same thing.

Yes, he would.

Big Walter would
tell me good.

Yeah. We got enough to do
with that money, all right.

Yeah.

Where'd you go today, girl?

I went to the doctor.

Dr. Jones does have
some strange ways about him,

but turning from a he to a she
ain't one of them.

I don't know what you're
talking about, Lena.

Ruth.

Ruth, look at me.
Look at me, Ruth.

I'm the same Lena Younger
you've known all these years,

and I didn't suddenly
turn into no fool.

Now, you called the doctor

that you went to see
this morning a she.

Well, I made a mistake.

You went to see
that woman, didn't you?

What woman?

You went to see
that woman...

Did the check come?

Now, what you doing here
this hour of the day?

Can you say hello when you walk
into the room?

WALTER:
Did it come?

[WALTER CHUCKLES]

[LAUGHING]

Our lives have changed.

Look, Mama.
Here's the agreement

between me,
Willy Harris and Bobo.

All in written up.
All legal-like.

I think you need
to talk to your wife.

-I will leave you two alone.
-What I need to talk to her for?

-Son, talk to your wife.
-Mama, look.

-Why can't anybody listen to me?
-Walter Lee.

I don't allow no yelling in
this house, and you know that.

Okay.

Okay, see, Mama,
no yelling.

Now everything's ready.

All signed and executed.

We even got a name for
the business. Southside Liquors.

Liquor!

Is that what this has been about
the whole time?

A liquor store?

Mama,
it's a great investment.

Listen to me, boy,
and you listen good.

There ain't gonna be no
investing in no liquor stores.

Not as long as there is
a breath in this body.

I don't want to
talk about it no more.

But, Mama, you haven't even
looked at it yet.

Mama, you haven't
even looked at it yet.

That's it?

You've decided.

Decided that this is the way
we're gonna live.

Will you tell that
to my boy tonight

when you put him to sleep
on the living room sofa?

Will you tell that
to my wife

when she's slaving over
somebody's dirty laundry?

Will you tell it
to yourself, Mama,

when you're fixing food
in somebody's kitchen

that your own family
can't even afford to eat?

-Walter, where are you going?
-I'm going out.

-I'll come with you.
-I don't want you to come.

Walter, I got to talk
to you about something.

That's too bad.

Walter Lee,
sit down.

I'm a grown man, Mama.

Ain't nobody said
you wasn't grown.

But you still in my house
and my presence,

and as long as you are, you will
talk to your wife civil.

-Now sit down.
-No, let him go on.

He makes me sick
to my stomach.

And you turn mine,
too, baby.

Walter Lee.

That was my biggest mistake.

What is wrong with you?

Ain't nothing
wrong with me.

Yes, there is something
wrong with you.

You're being eating up
like a crazy man.

And it's something more than me
not giving you this money.

This ain't new.
For the past two years

I've been watching you
get all nervous,

acting wild in the eyes.

-I gotta go out.
-I'm not finished talking
to you.

I don't need your
nagging right now, Mama.

So what you gonna do?
Go somewhere and drink?

Seems like you always tied up
in a knot about something.

Ready to bust out and yell

anytime anybody
say anything to you.

People can't live
like that, Walter.

Ruth is a good and
patient girl in her way,

but you getting to
be too much, son.

Don't make the mistake of
driving that girl away from you.

What mistake?
What she ever do for me?

That girl loves you, Walter.

Now you through?

'Cause if it's
all right with you,

I would like to
go out, please.

I'm sorry, son.

I'm sorry about
your liquor store.

But that just ain't
the thing for us to do.

I gotta go out, Mama.

-That's dangerous, son.
-What's dangerous?

That.
When a man got to go

outside his house
to look for peace.

Where else am I gonna find it?
Not in this place.

What is it, son?
What's wrong?

Mama, I want
so many things.

Mama, I want
so many things.

It's kind of
driving me crazy.

What is it that
you want, baby?

You got a nice wife,
a fine boy, you got a job.

A job? A job, Mama?

Mama.

I open and close
car doors all day.

I drive a man around
that looks right through me.

I say "Yes, sir. No, sir.

"Shall I take
the drive, sir?

"Am I the best trained monkey
you ever seen, sir?"

Mama, that ain't
no kind of job.

That ain't nothing.

Why do I even think
you going to understand me?

Understand what, baby?

Mama.

Sometimes when I'm driving
that man around,

and we passing them cool,
fancy restaurants,

and these white boys, these boys
they've just been there

talking about things,
important things,

they closing million-dollar
deals, I know they are.

And, Mama, these white boys,

they don't look much older
than me.

So, once again,
it's money.

This is about money,
because money is life.

Money is life?

I remember a time when freedom
used to be life.

But now, it's money?

Have times changed
that much?

No, they haven't changed.

It's always been
about money.

We were just never allowed
to get close enough to see it.

No, something has changed.

In my time,
if we could make it

to the North
without being lynched

and still have a shred of
dignity, too, that was enough.

But now here come
you and Beneatha,

you all talking about things
that just go right past me.

Now you my children

but sometimes you all
might as well be strangers.

Mama, you don't understand.

You probably never will.

Son, you know your wife's
expecting another baby?

What?

Now, I know it ain't my business
to be saying this,

but you need to know.

'Cause I think Ruth is thinking
about getting rid of it.

You don't know Ruth,
Mama,

if you think she would do
something like that.

RUTH:
Yes, I would, too, Walter.

I already made plans.

What?

Gave the woman
a down payment.

Well, son, it's your
turn to say something.

And I'm waiting to see
how you be your father's son.

'Cause your wife is saying,

she thinking about
destroying your child.

I'm waiting to hear
your father in you speak

and say we a people who give
life, not who take it away.

I'm waiting.

I'm waiting to
see you stand up

and be the man
your daddy was.

Well, if you a son
of mine, tell her.

You a disgrace to
your father's memory.

[DOOR CLOSES]

Cross my heart

-[GLASS SHATTERING]
- I'm crazy about you

And hopeless without you

Can't you see?

Cross my heart

Well, now.

Yes, now.

This,
my assimilated sister-in-law,

is what the well-dressed
Nigerian woman wears.

Isn't it beautiful?

[LAUGHING] Well, yeah,
it is something.

It is.

Enough of this
assimilationist junk.

[STOPS RECORD PLAYER]

[NIGERIAN MUSIC PLAYING]

What kind of dance is that?

A folk dance.

And what kind of folks
dance like that, honey?

Nigerian folks... People.

It's a dance of welcome.

Who you welcoming?

The men.
Back to the village.

Yeah. Where they been?

I don't know.

Out, tending cattle or
hunting or something.

The point is,
they're coming home.

To that? Girl,
you better put a pot on.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

[EXCLAIMING]

[GEORGE LAUGHING]

GEORGE:
Maybe you heard me wrong.

I said we're going to the
theater not going to be in it.

I don't like that, George.

RUTH:
Have a seat, George.

You think this boy's gonna go
out with you looking like that?

Get dressed.

That's up to George.

If he's ashamed
of his heritage...

Bennie, Bennie, Bennie.
Don't be so proud of yourself

just because
you look eccentric.

How can something that feels
so natural be eccentric?

That's what eccentric means,
my dear.

Feeling natural
although you're anything but.

Go get dressed.
I don't want us to be late.

Don't worry, George.

I wouldn't expect
someone like you

to appreciate great
and ancient cultures.

I know your only aim
in life is to utterly

submerge yourself
in the dominant

and, in this case,
oppressive culture.

My, my, my, aren't we
the revolutionary tonight?

You will lecture me on our great
West African heritage.

Let's hear it.

Expound upon
the great Ashanti empires

and the Songhay civilizations.

Oh, and let's not forget
the brilliance

of the sculpture of Benin
and the poetry of the Bantu.

[CHUCKLES]

Heritage?
Let's face it, baby.

Your heritage is nothing

but a bunch of
raggedy-assed spirituals

and foul-smelling chitlins.

How comfortable we are
wallowing in our ignorance.

My people were the first people
on earth to smelt iron.

The Ashanti were performing
surgical operations

when the English were
still tattooing themselves

with blue dragons.

She'll be out in a minute,
George.

What time is the show?

The curtain is at 8:30.
Which is a bit earlier

than the standard New York
curtain of 8:40.

Oh.

Mama in there?

RUTH:
No, she's not back yet.

Uh... Do you get
to New York a lot?

She say where
she was going?

No.

-I get there a few times a year.
-Oh.

New York ain't got nothing
Chicago ain't got,

just a bunch more people
all squeezed up together.

-So, you've been?
-Plenty of times.

-Walter!
-Plenty.

WALTER:
Why don't you offer this man
some refreshments?

They don't know how
to entertain here, man.

I don't really care
for anything. Thank you.

[LAUGHING]

Why you college boys always wear
them silly-looking white shoes?

RUTH: Walter!
White shoes, cold as it is.

RUTH:
George, you're gonna
have to excuse him.

He's had too much to drink.
You don't have to excuse me.

I'll excuse myself
if I need excusing.

I'm just saying
they look funny as hell.

Well?

It's the college style.

Style, my ass.
Boy, you're something.

I hear your old man
is about to buy

that big hotel over
there on the drive.

Mmm-hmm.
That's a shrewd move.

See, your old man's
like me, he thinks big.

Bet you got some
of that in you.

Like father, like son.

Maybe we get
together sometime,

have couple of beers
and talk some business.

[CHUCKLES]

I don't think so, Walter.

You don't think what?

I really don't
have the time.

Okay. I understand.

You just a busy
little boy, ain't you?

You ain't got the time
for people like me.

What's your problem, Walter?

You my problem.
And people like you.

Them college boys.
Like that makes you better.

What they teaching you
over there?

Sociology and psychology?

They ain't teaching
you how to be a man.

They ain't teaching you how to
get out here and run this world.

They just teach you how to read
them books and talk proper,

and wear them
sissy-looking white shoes.

You're all whacked up
with bitterness, man.

And you?

You ain't got no
bitterness in you?

You don't see no stars
out there gleaming

you just can't
reach out and grab?

You happy?

You contented
son-of-a-bitch.

You got it made.

You had the world handed to you
on a silver platter.

You damn right, I'm bitter.

Man, I'm a volcano.

I'm a giant.
A giant surrounded by ants.

Ants can't even understand
what the giant is talking about.

Walter,
ain't you with nobody?

Hell, no. 'Cause there
ain't nobody with me.

Not even my own mother.

-Ready.
-Ah!

And do you look great!

RUTH:
You all have a nice time.

See y'all later.

Bye-bye.

-Thank you.
-Mmm-hmm.

-Walter.
-Don't start.

Start what?

Your nagging.
Where was I?

Who was I with?

How much money
did I spend?

Walter, honey, can't we just try
and talk about this?

I was out talking with people
who understand me.

People who care about the things
I got on my mind.

Guess that means
people like Willy Harris.

Yes, people like Willy Harris.

Why don't y'all just
go on into business

and quit
talking about it?

Why? You want to know why?

'Cause we all tied
to a race of people

that don't know
how to do nothing

but moan,
and pray and have babies.

Honey, why can't
you stop fighting me?

Who's fighting you?

Who even cares about you?

Well, I guess
I just didn't realize

how bad things
was between us.

I just didn't realize that
somewhere we lost it.

I am sorry.

I'm sorry about
this new baby, Walter.

You want some hot milk?

With all that liquor you come
home with, you ought to have

-something hot in your stomach.
-No, I don't want no hot milk.

You want some coffee?

No, I don't want no coffee.

I don't want no hot milk.

Then what?

What?

What else can I
give you, Walter?

What? What?
What can I give you?

[SIGHS]

It's been rough,
ain't it, baby?

Between two people,

there ain't as
much understanding

as folks generally
think there is.

I mean,
like between me and you.

How we gets to
a place where we scared

to talk softness
to each other.

What gets into people
who ought to be close?

I don't know.

Lately, I been
thinking about it a lot.

On account of you
and me, you mean?

The way something
come down between us.

Walter, there ain't
so much between us.

Not when you come to me
and you try and talk to me.

Just try and be with me,
a little, even.

Sometimes...

Sometimes, I don't
even know how to try.

Walter.

Walter, baby.

Things don't got
to be like this.

No, Walter.

Sometimes people can do things
so that things are better.

You remember the way we used to
talk before Travis was born?

Remember, about the way
we was going to live?

You remember?

And the kind of house
we was going to have?

-I remember.
-Yeah.

Walter, it's all
starting to slip away from us.

I'm sorry.

Oh!

Oh, my! That bus stop seems
further away at night.

Where you been
all day, Mama?

How you feeling, honey?

Where have you been all day?
Where's Travis?

What, he ain't out front?
I didn't see him.

That boy is gonna get it.

WALTER:
Mama.

Yes, Walter.

Where were you?

-I went downtown.
-What's downtown?

I had a little business
to attend to.

What kind of business?

Come on, now. You know better
than to question me like that.

Mama, you ain't go do nothing
crazy with that insurance money?

-Mama, I was only next door.
-Mama, nothing.

I have told you
a thousand times not to go

running off like that.
Now you get in there.

LENA:
Well, at least let
me tell him something.

It's important, and I want him
to be the first to hear.

Travis.

Travis, baby,
now you remember that money

that come in
the mail this morning,

that money that got
everybody so excited?

Yes, ma'am.

What you think your grandma went
and done with that money?

I don't know, Grandma.

She went and
bought you a house.

What?

It's gonna be yours
when you get to be a man.

You glad?

Well, yes, ma'am.

I always wanted
to live in a house.

Well, now you can start.

[LAUGHING]
Give me some sugar.

Now when you say
your prayers tonight,

you can thank God
and your grandfather,

'cause it was both of them
what give you the house.

Now go on, get in there.

-TRAVIS: Mama.
-Go on.

RUTH:
So, you went and did it.

Yes. Yes I did.

Praise God.

Walter, honey.

Walter, please.
Let me be glad, Walter.

Walter, you be glad, too.

Walter, it's a home.

How big is it?

Where is it?
How much it cost? Wait. Wait.

When are we moving?

First of the month.

Praise God! Praise God!

And it's a nice house, too.
Three bedrooms.

A big one for the two of you.

Of course, me and Beneatha,
we still got to share a room,

but Travis will have
a room of his own.

And I was thinking that
if the new baby was a boy,

we could get one of them
double-decker outfits.

Yeah, yeah.
And there's a yard where maybe

I get to grow myself
a little something,

and a basement, and...

Look, I don't mean to make it
sound fancier than it is.

It's just a plain
little old house.

But it will be ours.

And it makes
a difference in a man

when he can walk on
floors that belong to him.

Where is it?

It's in Clybourne Park.

RUTH:
In Clybourne Park?

Lena, there ain't no colored
people living in Clybourne Park.

Well, there's gonna
be some, now.

So that's
the peace and comfort

you went out and
bought for us today?

I just tried to
find the nicest place

for the least
amount of money.

Now, mind you,

I ain't never been one
to be afraid of no crackers,

but, Lena,
wasn't there no other houses?

-You mean for the colored?
-Yeah.

There was lots of them,
way out yonder, somewhere,

in worse shape and
cost more money. No.

I did the best I could.

All I can say then is...

This is my time in
life to say goodbye...

Say goodbye to
these cracking walls,

and these
marching cockroaches

and the cramped little
closet that ain't now

or never was no
excuse for a kitchen.

I'm gonna say it good
and loud. Hallelujah!

[LAUGHING]

Goodbye, misery.

I don't never want to see
your ugly face again.

[RUTH LAUGHING]

I'm gonna go
see about Travis.

Lord, I sure don't feel like
whipping nobody tonight.

Son, you understand
what I done, right?

I seen my family
falling apart

right in front
of my eyes today.

We was talking
about killing babies

and wishing each
other was dead.

When it gets like that,

somebody's got to do
something different.

Something big.

Oh, come on, son.

Come on. Won't you
say how, deep inside,

you know I done
the right thing?

What you need me to say
you done right for?

You the head of this family.

It was your money and you did
what you wanted to do with it.

So what you need me to say
you done right for?

So you butchered up
a dream of mine.

You, who always talking about
your children's dreams.

Walter Lee. Walter, wait.

Wait, Walter.

[PLAYING JAZZ MUSIC]

Hi, sugar.

[SCOFFS]

MAN:
Walter, we're closing.

Back open at 10:00,
all right?

[SIGN BUZZING]

LENA:
You got to eat, honey.

It's more than just yourself
you're eating for, remember?

He'll be back.

I know my son.
He'll come home.

[PHONE RINGING]

Hello.

Hello, Mrs. Arnold.
Yes, this is his mother.

Well, I'm sure he just thought
he was off today, and...

Yes, I'll be sure
and tell him. I will.

Yes, thank you.

Walter Lee didn't
show up for work.

If he don't go in by tomorrow,
he's gonna lose his job.

It's gonna be
all right, honey.

It's gonna be all right.

I'll be back.

Good morning.
Can I help you?

No, you've done enough.

Let's go.

You are gonna follow me
out of here, Walter Lee.

Right now.

Take over for me.

Take off everything
and put on this.

Sure hope we don't get no
whole bunch of snow this winter.

I never saw snow till coming
up here to the States.

Don't have such
a nonsense in Kingston.

I laugh now when
I think about how, growing up,

we used to
complain for the cold.

Child, I didn't know "cold"
until I move up here to Chicago.

It's like we went straight
from the fire to the freezer.

You go ahead and
put on that robe, huh?

I'll be back directly.

-Thank you.
-You're welcome.

Where you been, Walter?

I know you ain't
been to work.

I been out, Mama.
Just out.

So, that's it?
You done come full circle, now?

Next time I come
looking for you,

I'm gonna find you laid out
drunk in the gutter or worse.

You got hurt
and pain in you?

You think you the only colored
man in Chicago with hurt?

The only man?

Well, I used to know a man who
knew how to live with his hurt

and make his pain
work for him.

And he knew trials
you don't begin to know,

but he did it with dignity.

I was married to
that man, Walter.

And as I knew your father,
I know you.

You two are not
that different.

Forty years ago, Mama,
you left the South.

Why'd you do it?

Why'd you leave the only place
you ever knew?

Well, for the same reason most
folks up here did, I suspect.

To find something better,
to make more of myself.

But it wasn't like I was
gonna set the world on fire.

But you came.

You didn't let
nobody stop you.

'Cause nobody else had
the right to tell you

that what you wanted to do
was right or wrong.

You had to come,
didn't you, Mama?

You got on your train.

So why in God's name
wouldn't you let me get on mine

when the time came?

I'm missing it, Mama,

and I don't think
it's coming back again.

I gave the man
$3,500 on the house.

Well, that leaves $6,500.

I want you to put $3,000

in the savings account
for Bennie's schooling

and the rest I want you
to put into a checking account

with your name on it.

And then you decide
what to do with it.

Now, I know that's not
as much as you wanted,

but it's all I got
in this world.

Well, you the man
of the house,

you the head of
this family now.

So I'm gonna
leave it up to you.

You trust me
like that, Mama?

I ain't never
stopped trusting you.

Just like I'll never
stop loving you.

And you need to go
home to your wife

who's worried sick about you.

Okay, Mama.

Hello, Mary.
It's Walter Lee.

I'm great, I'm great.

No, it's not raining
where I'm at.

All I see is sunshine
and blue skies.

Bobo in? Yeah, thanks.

Bobo, my man.
Call Willy Harris.

[LAUGHING]
We're back on. Yeah.

[CHEERING]

[SWING MUSIC PLAYING]

[ALL CHEERING]

[SLOW JAZZ PLAYING]

I can't tell you how
good this feels, Walter.

Movies and a dance.

Yeah, you should run away
from home more often.

I'd be lying to you
if I didn't tell you

I was a happy man, Ruth.

Everything's starting
to come together.

It's gonna be big.
You just watch.

I'm not gonna
say any more.

It's gonna be big, though.

[BOTH LAUGH]

George.

Come on, Bennie.

We're having a nice time.
Don't spoil it.

Can't we just talk?

George, talk.

Beneatha, we always talk,
and I don't mind sometimes,

but there is more
to a relationship, you know?

So, let's get to
the "more" part.

What do you
plan to do, George?

Do?

Well, first, I'll put my arm
around you, like this.

I'm serious, George.

Okay, I will play along,
for a minute.

I plan to finish college,

then get a job at
my dad's company,

make a lot of money
and then get married.

Happy?

Care to know about me?
What I want?

I think you'll
tell me anyway.

I want to make
a difference.

A difference?

Yes. I don't want to
be like everybody else,

like Mama and Ruth.

I want to do
something with my life.

You know what I mean?

No.

Hello.

I think we should
all go see the house tomorrow

and Ruth has a great idea.
Don't you, babe?

Yes, I do.

You get one, too.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

Give us a few minutes,
please.

Yes, sir.

[ALL LAUGHING]

RUTH:
This must be it.

Sold. Sold.

RUTH:
It's huge.

LENA:
Well, now, I never
said it was no mansion.

Well, why don't
we go in?

A mansion never
looked better than this.

RUTH:
Lady, what have you done?

LENA:
Oh, you'll see.
Come on, you'll see.

Oh, look at this bathroom.

You said that our bedroom
is up on the right.

My own bathroom!

This is my room,
right here.

Nobody touch this room.

No, this is my room.
This is...

Oh, please...
BENEATHA: This is my room!

Okay, this is her room.
My goodness gracious me.

Excuse me.

-Where is she?
-In the backyard.

All right, go on
to the taxi and get the stuff.

Goodness.

RUTH: Look at my kitchen.
BENEATHA: Look at your kitchen.

My kitchen!

[RUTH AND BENEATHA LAUGHING]

Look what I got over here.
Wait a minute, now.

What is all this?
Oh, I don't know.

I have no idea.

Right here.
Right here. Right here.

Sit right here,
Your Highness.

[ALL LAUGHING]

We got you
a little something.

Oh, that's lovely.

Okay.

Now we won't have to use
our good forks and spoons, Mama.

Oh, this is wonderful.
This is wonderful.

Can I go get my
gift now, Mama?

Yes. Yes, before
you explode, boy.

Oh, my.

It's the big one.

Travis didn't want to go in
with the rest of us,

so he went out
and got his own gift.

LENA:
Oh!

Oh!

[ALL LAUGHING]

Travis.

Travis, honey,
what is that?

See, it's a gardening hat, like
ladies wear in the magazines.

Wait, wait, wait.
We gotta take her hat off.

RUTH:
Now, who was with
him when he got that?

Well, it's different.
It's expressive.

And he picked it
out himself.

You like it,
Grandma?

Oh, I love it.

Oh, yes,
this is a beautiful hat.

I always wanted me
one just like it.

[ALL LAUGHING]

Mama,
you look like you're ready

to go chop some cotton,
sure enough.

Go on, Walter Lee.

Don't you pay him no mind.

This is a beautiful hat.

Come on, let's take these things
into the basement.

Stop laughing.

We not laughing, Lena.

We're not laughing much.

[ALL LAUGHING]

It's been a long time
since I've seen her this happy.

So, you like it?

What?

Come on.
Let's just go inside.

Howdy do, neighbors.
Howdy do.

Howdy do.

Howdy do.

Man, if you don't get up...
Hey.

I'm the one who's supposed
to be lying down.

All in due time,
Mrs. Younger.

The leisure life is
right around the corner.

[LAUGHING]

Well, tell it to hurry up.
I been ready.

Beneatha.
Which box has the pots in it?

BENEATHA:
In the crate by the stove.

No, that crate has your mother's
good China in it.

I had a dream
about our future.

Lord, do I want
to hear this?

No, you don't
have to hear it.

Soon you gonna
be living it.

[SLOW JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]

That's nice.

Come on, now.

Come on. Come on, girl.

Oh, my goodness.

[LAUGHING]

Let me show you how to dance,
how the rich people dance.

Talk about old
fashioned Negroes.

What kind of Negroes?

Old fashioned.

Well, if we're old Negroes, then
you one of them new Negroes.

WALTER:
Yeah, and when the new Negroes
have their convention,

their first order of business
is going to be to elect Beneatha

as the Chairman of
Unending Agitation.

Chair-woman, and I will wear
the crown proudly.

Girl, I do believe
you are the first person

in the history of
the entire human race

to successfully
brainwash yourself.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

I mean, damn, even the NAACP
takes a holiday sometimes.

I can see this chick now

before she performs
one of her operations

she gonna be leaning
over that poor cat,

right before she slices him

she gonna have
the nerve to ask him,

"Sir, what are your
views on civil rights?"

[ALL LAUGHING]
RUTH: She would, too.

Sticks and stone
may break my bones,

but words will
never hurt me.

RUTH:
How's that?

[LAUGHING]

-Brother.
-Walter.

Hello. I'm sorry, I was knocking
and I guess no one...

[MUSIC STOPS]

I... I'm looking for
a Mrs. Lena Younger.

Why don't you
have a seat, Mr...

Lindner. Carl Lindner.

Walter Younger.

I handle most of
my mother's business

and this is my wife, Ruth.

How do you do?
And my sister, Beneatha.

Have a seat.
Why, thank you.

Will you be all right?

That's quite
all right, thanks.

Listen, I represent

the Clybourne Park
Improvement Association.

Why don't you put
your things down,

make yourself
more comfortable?

Why, thank you.
Thank you very much.

I'm going to set
that right there.

Like I said,
I represent

the Clybourne Park
Improvement Association.

Would you like something to
drink? Get this man a beer.

-You want a...
-No, no. No thanks.

No, no. I'm quite all right.
Thank you very much.

-Sure?
-Yeah, I'm... Really, I'm fine.

[CLEARING THROAT]
Now, I'm not so sure
how much you folks

know about our
little organization.

But it's a community
group that's set up to,

sort of, look out
after things basically.

Like?

Like block upkeep,
special projects.

We have a New Neighbors
Orientation Committee.

And what do they do?

That's sort of
a Welcoming Committee,

if you will,
and I'm the chairman.

And we go around and we meet the
new neighbors that are moving in

and we sort of
give them the lowdown

on how we do things
in Clybourne Park.

Uh-huh. The lowdown?

Yeah, and we also
have a category,

what the association calls,
Special Community Problems.

And, pray tell,
what are some of those?

Beneatha.

-Go right ahead.
-Well...

You don't look comfortable,
Mr. Lindner.

Do you want another chair?

No, no, no, no, no.
I'm fine.

[STAMMERING]
Let me just get to the point.

I'm sure you're aware
of some of the incidents

which have happened
in various parts of the city

where colored people
have moved in to certain areas.

Now, what we have,
I feel,

is a unique organization
in American life,

where we're trying to
do something about it.

I mean, most of
the trouble in this world

is because
people don't sit down

with one another and
talk to each other.

-Well, amen to that.
-Yes.

And that's the way we feel
in Clybourne Park.

And that's why I was
elected to come out

and talk to you people,
friendly-like,

as people should
talk to one another,

and see, you know,
if we could work this thing out.

Work what out?

Please, believe me
when I say race prejudice has

absolutely nothing
to do with this.

It's just that the folks
in Clybourne Park feel that,

for the happiness
of all concerned,

our Negro families
are better off,

they're happier, living
in their own communities.

This, friends,
is the Welcoming Committee.

Is this what you came all
the way over here to tell us?

CARL:
Well, in the face of
what I've just said,

we are prepared to make your
family a very generous offer.

-Yeah?
-Yes, the association,

along with the collective
efforts of our people,

would like to buy
your house back from you

at a financial gain
to your family.

Lord have mercy.
Ain't this the living gall?

All right,
you through?

What? No, I'd like
to give you the exact terms

of the financial
agreement, if I may.

Oh, no. We don't need
no terms of no agreement.

[STAMMERING]
Do you really feel...

No, no. Don't worry
about how I feel.

Come on.
Get out of my house.

All right, what do you people
think you have to gain

by moving into a neighborhood
where you're not wanted?

People get awful worked up when
they feel their way of life,

everything they've
worked for, is threatened.

Get out.

You can't force people to change
their heart, Mr. Younger.

In case you change your mind,
you have my card.

TRAVIS:
Come on, Grandma,
tell me.

I'm not gonna tell you.

I told you once before,
you...

Is this all the packing
the three of you all got done

since I left out of
here this morning?

You all got
the energy of the dead.

-What time the movers due?
-4:00.

Well, then what is
wrong with you all?

You had a caller, Mama.

Sure enough? Who?

The Welcoming Committee.

The who?

The Welcoming Committee.

They said they sure
going to be glad

to see you when
you get there.

Yeah they said they can't
hardly wait to see your face.

What are you
all talking about?

A gentleman stopped by from

the Clybourne Park
Improvement Association.

Oh, what he want?

RUTH:
He wanted to welcome you, Lena.

See, the one thing
they don't have

in their lovely neighborhood
that they're dying to have,

is a fine family
of colored people.

And he left his card
to prove his sincerity.

Go over there,
and pack that stuff.

-Did he threaten us?
-Oh, no, Mama.

They don't do it
like that anymore.

He talked brotherhood.

He said we all ought to sit down
and hate each other

with good
Christian fellowship.

Have mercy.

They wanted to buy
the house back from us.

At a financial
gain to us.

Why? What do they
think we're gonna do? Eat them?

RUTH:
No, honey, marry them.

Oh, Father,
help us.

We don't need
help, they do.

No, baby,
we all need the help.

Ain't nobody's going nowhere,

we're all in
this world together.

Not if they can
have it their way.

Mama, you gonna take that
to the new house?

Yes, I am.

That raggedy
looking old thing?

It expresses me.

[ALL LAUGHING]
So, there. Miss Thing.

We are entering
a new tomorrow.

Mama, you know how it feels
to climb up in a chariot?

-What?
-You know...

I got wings, you got wings

All God's chillun
got wings

It's "children,"
not "chillun."

[ALL LAUGHING]

-[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
-Minstrel man.

Lord, if that
man is back...

-Who is it?
-BOBO: It's me, Walter.

-Can I talk to you?
-No, I got it.

LENA:
You all go pack something.

RUTH:
Yes, please do something.

Mama, our future
has arrived.

I got wings, you got wings

All God's chillun
got wings

Bobo.

-Where's Willy?
-Um, can we talk, Walter?

Yeah, come on,
come on in here.

Alone.

Hey, Miss Ruth. Miss Lena.

Hello, Bobo.

Be right back.

Ain't nothing wrong,
is there?

Let me tell you, Walter.

I gotta tell you.
You know how it was?

It's all the money we got,
me and Mary, all our savings.

What are you
telling me all this for?

You know, me and Willy
was supposed to go

down to Springfield.

Yeah, to spread
some money around.

I got a bad feeling
about it, Walter,

I got a real bad
feeling about it.

You saying
you didn't go?

I'm trying to
tell you, Walter.

Then tell me, Bobo.
What's the matter with you?

-Did you go?
-No.

-Why not?
-I didn't have no reason to go.

What are you
talking about?

You better start
making some sense.

I'm trying to
tell you, Walter.

When I went down
to the train station

to meet Willy yesterday,
like we planned,

man, he didn't
never show up.

And he got the money?

I gave him all the money,
like we agreed.

Why didn't he show up then?

Where was he?
Where is he?

I don't know.

What you mean you don't know?
Where is he?

I don't know.
I waited for six hours.

I waited till the last
train left for Springfield.

Man, that's...

That's all the money
we got in this world.

Bobo, maybe
he went by himself.

Maybe you missed each other
at the train station.

He probably got
on a earlier train.

Come on, man, you know
Willy got his own ways.

-Walter--
-There's no way.

There's no way,
he's gotta be somewhere.

He just gotta be.

Come on,
we gonna find him.

Bobo?

What's the matter
with you, Walter?

When a cat takes off
with your money,

he don't leave no map.

You better be lying.
You better be lying!

There's no way.
Willy wouldn't do that.

No.

Willy wouldn't do that.

[GROANING]

No. Oh, God.

No, Willy.

Oh, God,
don't let it be true.

God, no, no.
Not with that money.

Please, God,
not with that money.

That was all
the money we had!

I'm sorry, Walter.

I had my life staked
on this deal, too.

Go!

Is it gone, son?

Walter Lee.

Is it gone?

Mama. Mama,
I'm sorry. Mama.

Your sister's
money for school.

No.

You used that money, too?

Mama, I never went
to the bank at all.

[EXCLAIMS]

[WALTER CRYING]

Mama, it's all gone.
All of it.

Mama, I'm sorry.

I seen him come home,
night after night

and he'd look at the rug
and he'd look at me,

the red showing in his eyes,
the veins moving in his head.

I seen him grow thin and old,
before he was 40,

working and working
and working,

like somebody's old horse,
killing himself,

and you give it
away in one day.

-Mama.
-Oh, God!

[SOBBING]

Show me the strength.

[BOTH SOBBING]

WALTER:
I'm sorry.

Are you locked out?

No.

Oh, okay.

Well, I had some
free time so I thought

I'd come over and
help with the packing.

There is something magical
about a family

in preparation for a journey.

The flow of life.
It makes me think of Africa.

Hmm. Africa.

This is not a good mood.

Today is a day for sunlight.

You're moving,

as you have moved me.

Something is wrong.

He gave away
the money, Asagai.

Who gave away what money?

The insurance money.

My brother gave it away.

Gave it away?

He would say that
he made an investment.

I'm very sorry.

But, you know,
Brother isn't the crazy one.

He did what
made sense to him.

Mama is the crazy
one for falling for it

and throwing our lives away.

Perhaps you don't
understand some things

as well as your mother.

And what about you now?

Me?

Nothing.

But it's probably
just as well, anyway.

Why would anyone want to be
a doctor in this nutty world?

I never thought I would
see you in such a despair.

And after such
a small defeat.

Small defeat?

Asagai, this family
has been wiped out.

What's the matter with you?

Don't they use money
where you come from?

Look at me.

Look at me, Alaiyo.

Was it your money?

I asked if it was
your money that was lost?

It belonged to all of us.

Says who?
Did you earn it?

Did anyone earn it?

My father earned it.

Oh, yes, and he died
to make it available.

But what if he had not died?

What then would have happened
to all the dreams,

the house, the scheme,
the doctor dream?

There is something
very wrong

when all the dreams in a house
depend on a man dying.

Yes, your brother made
a stupid, childish mistake,

but you know
what I think?

I think you are
grateful to him.

What are you
talking about?

I'm talking about
how grateful you are,

now that you can
give up on your dream.

Heck, give up on
the whole human race.

All your big talk about,
"What good is struggle,"

"where we are all going,"
"why are we all bothering."

And you cannot answer it.

I live the answer.

I am the exceptional man
in my village

who can even read a book.

America to most of my countrymen
is an abstract,

a place on a map.

I live and study here.

I know extraordinary
things can happen

because they happen
for me every day.

So stop your moaning
and groaning, Alaiyo,

and tell me what
you plan to do.

Huh?

I don't know.

I guess I need to think.

I will help you.

When all this is over,
you will come with me.

You're asking for a date
at a time like this?

Not to the movies
or to dinner.

You will come with me,
home, to Africa.

To Nigeria?

I will show you
the mountains and the stars,

and give you cold drinks
from the calabash,

and teach you the old songs and
the ways of the Yoruba people.

And,
if ever you get homesick,

we will pretend you have been
away for only a day.

Hmm?

Mmm...

You're getting me
all mixed up.

How? Why?

Too many things.

Too much has
happened today.

I need to think.

I will leave you to think.

So often have I
looked at you and said,

"So this is what the New World
hath finally wrought."

[SIGHS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

There he is,
Monsieur le petit
bourgeois noir,himself.

What's our next scheme,
Mr. Carnegie?

A yacht on Lake Michigan?

Where you'll be installed
as chairman of some board?

I look at you
and see the final triumph

of stupidity in this world.

Who was that?

-Your husband.
-Where'd he go?

I think he had
an appointment at US Steel.

Bennie, you didn't say nothing
bad to him, now, did you?

Bad? To him? No, I told him
he was a sweet boy,

and full of dreams and
everything that's peachy keen.

Ain't it a mess
in here, though?

Well, ain't no need
in moping,

we need to start
unpacking these crates,

one of you call the movers,
tell them not to come.

Why?

Ain't no need them coming all
the way over here,

got to turn around,
go back.

They charge for that too.

No.

Lena, no. Lena.

Bennie, will you tell her.

Bennie, will you tell her,
please, that we can still move?

Lena, now the house note
ain't but a $125 a month,

we got four grown people
in this house, we will work.

Lena I will work 20 hours
a day if I have to.

I will strap my baby to
my back, if I have to.

But, Lena, we gotta move.

Lena, no,
we gotta get out of here.

No, Ruth, no.

I'm starting to see
this thing different, now.

Now, I've been thinking of ways
we can fix this place up.

I seen a secondhand bureau

over on Maxwell Street
just the other day

-that'd fit right in there.
-No. No.

All it needs is some varnish
and some new handles, now.

And Walter Lee can
put up some screens

in your room
around the baby's...

Where you been, son?

-Made a call.
-To who?

To the man.

What man, baby?

The man, Mama.

Don't you know
who the man is?

Beneatha, you're such
a smart little girl.

-Tell Mama who the man is.
-Lindner.

That's right.
That's good.

I told him to
come right over.

For what?
What you wanna see him for?

We gonna do
business with him.

What you talking
about, baby?

I'm talking about life, Mama.

You the one always telling me
to see life just the way it is?

Well, I figured it out,
life just the way it is.

He who gets and
who don't get.

See, Mama,
life is divided up

between the takers
and the tooken.

And some of us
always getting tooken.

People like Willy Harris
don't never get tooken.

You know why
the rest of us do?

'Cause we all mixed up,
we mixed up bad.

We just always trying to find
a right

and a wrong part
of things in life

and we just be worrying about it
and we cry about it.

We stay up nights
trying to figure it out.

And all that time,
them takers

is just out there
taking and taking.

[SCOFFS]

Willy Harris?

Willy Harris don't even count
in the big scheme of things.

No. No, but I will say
one thing for old Willy.

He taught me to keep my eye on
what does count in this world.

What did you call
that man for, Walter Lee?

I told him to come
on over to the show.

We gonna put on a show
for the man

exactly what he wants to see.

Talking about taking
people's money

to keep us from
moving into our house?

No, I'm not just
talking about it,

that's what's gonna happen.

BENEATHA:
Oh, God,
where is the bottom?

Where is the honest-to-God
bottom

so he can't go any farther?

[LAUGHING]

Where's the bottom?
Where's the bottom?

You and the African boy.

All you or anybody ever do
is just carry a flag,

or a spear, or sing
some marching songs, huh?

Y'all always looking it
to the right

and the wrong
part of things, huh?

You know what's gonna happen
to that boy one day?

He's gonna find himself
locked away in a dungeon forever

and the takers are
gonna have the key.

Forget it, baby.

There ain't no causes
in this world.

There ain't
nothing but taking

and he who takes
the most is the smartest.

And it don't make
a damn bit of difference how.

You making something
inside me cry, son.

Oh no, Mama, don't cry.
Don't cry, Mama.

You have to understand that
that white man's gonna come in,

he's gonna be able to give us
more money than we ever had.

More money than Willy took,
more money than Daddy left.

It's that important to him
and I'm gonna help him out.

I'm gonna put
on a show, Mama.

LENA:
Son, I come from five
generations of people

who were slaves
and sharecroppers,

but ain't nobody in my family
never took no pay from nobody

that was a way of telling us we
wasn't fit to walk the earth.

We ain't never
been that poor.

We ain't never been
that dead inside.

What's the matter
with you people?

I didn't make this world.

It was given to me this way.

And hell, yes,
I want me some yachts!

And, yes, I wanna to hang
some real pearls

around my wife's neck.

Ain't she supposed
to wear no pearls?

Somebody tell me
who decides

which woman gets to wear
real pearls in this world?

I tell you, I'm a man and I want
my wife to wear some pearls.

But how you gonna
feel on the inside?

I'm gonna feel fine, Mama.
I'm gonna feel like a man.

Ain't gonna have nothing left.

I'm gonna feel fine, Mama!

I'm gonna look that man
in the eyes and say,

"Okay, Mr. Lindner, that's your
neighborhood out there,

"you got the right to keep it
the way you want it.

"You got the right
to have it how you want it.

"Just write the check
and the house is yours.

"Just put that
money in my hands

"and you ain't
got to live next

"to a bunch of
stinking Niggers."

And, oh, Mama,
for the last act...

Oh, Mama, I'll just get down on
my black knees, if I have to,

and get that white man
what he really want.

[EXCLAIMING]

Captain, mister, bossman.

Oh, Great White Father,
you just giving us that money,

and we ain't gonna dirty up
your white folk neighborhood.

And I'm gonna feel fine.
I'm gonna feel fine.

WALTER:
Fine.

That is not a man.

That is nothing
but a toothless rat.

You mourning your brother?

He's no brother of mine.

What's that you said?

I said, that man in there,
is no brother of mine.

Oh, you feeling like
you better than he is?

Can't you be on
my side for once?

You saw what
he just did, Mama.

You saw him down on his knees.
Wasn't it you who taught me

to despise any man
who would do that?

Yeah, me and your daddy,
we taught you that.

And we taught
you something else.

We taught you to love him.

Love him?
There's nothing left to love.

There is always
something left to love.

Have you cried
for that boy today?

I don't mean for yourself
or for the family

'cause we lost the money.

I mean, for him,
for what he's been through,

and what it's done to him.

Oh, child, when you think is the
time to love somebody the most?

When they done good and made
everything easy for everybody?

That's what you think?

You ain't done learning.

The time to love the most

is when he's at his lowest
and can't believe in hisself

'cause the world
done whipped him so.

When you starts
to measure somebody,

you measure them right.

Measure him right.

Make sure you done
taking into account

all the hills and valleys
he come through

before he got to
wherever he is.

The moving men are here.

Are they, baby?

Well, I better go downstairs,
talk to them.

I came right over.

Well, was I glad to
hear from you people.

Walter, he's here.

Well, you know, life can be
so much easier

than people
let it be, really.

LINDNER:
Okay,
so with whom do I negotiate?

You, Mrs. Younger,
or your son?

Oh, you do this
with my son.

Okay.

These are just
some official papers.

Travis,
go on outside.

No, you don't, Travis.
You come right here.

Sit down, 'cause your Daddy's
getting ready to do something

you gonna be needing
to understand.

Teach him about
what's important in this world

and teach him good.

Like Willy Harris taught you.

Teach him about
the takers and the tooken.

Go on.

Show your son what five
generations done come to.

Well, Mr. Lindner,

I called you here

'cause me and my family,

we all very plain people.

LINDNER:
Yes.

I've worked as a chauffeur
most my life,

and my wife,
she does domestic work,

and so does my mother.

I mean, we're very plain.

Yes, Mr. Younger.

And my father...

My father was a laborer
most his life.

Yeah, I understand.
I got that. Yeah.

My father almost beat
a man to death once

because he called him
a bad name or something.

You know what I mean?

I'm not so sure.

What I'm trying to say
is that we come from a people

who had
a whole lot of pride.

I mean,
we are very proud people.

And that's my sister
over there

and she's gonna
be a doctor.

And we are very proud.

Yeah. Well,
you should be. I'm sure...

Hold on, let me finish.

What I'm trying to say is that
we come from proud people

and...

That's my son, Travis.

Come here, Travis.

And he makes
the sixth generation

of our family
in this country.

We have all thought
about your offer.

Good. Good, good,
good, good, good.

And we have decided

to move into our house,

because my father...

My father, he earned it
for us, brick by brick.

And we don't wanna start
no trouble or fight no causes.

And we will do everything to,
you know, be good neighbors.

And that's all we gotta
say about that.

We don't want your money.

So you've decided
to occupy?

Well, then I...

I must appeal to you,
Mrs. Younger.

I mean, you're older,
you're wiser,

you'd know the way
this world works.

Talk to this boy.

Oh, I'm afraid you
don't understand.

See, my son just said we was
going to move into the house.

It ain't nothing
left for me to say.

Well, you know how these young
people are nowadays.

You can't do
a thing with them.

Goodbye.

Well, if that's how
you people feel about it,

I guess there's nothing
left for me to say.

I...

I sure hope you know what
you people are getting into.

[EXCLAIMS]

[BENEATHA LAUGHING]

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Got an order to move four rooms,
family of five. Is that you?

-That's us.
-Let's get the hell out of here.

Let's go. Let's go.

Hey, Travis,
put on your jacket.

Walter Lee, fix your tie,

you look like
somebody's hoodlum.

-[BENEATHA LAUGHING]
-Don't be laughing, Beneatha.

Oh, wait, that ain't no bale
of cotton, now. That's my chair.

I had that chair 25 years.

I'd like sit in it again.

Mama, I think I shall
go marry Joseph Asagai

and go live in
Africa one day.

You ain't old enough
to marry nobody.

Not now, but some day.

Think of all the good I can do
as a doctor in Africa.

Girl, you need to forget about
Africa and all them Africans

and go marry yourself
a man with some loot.

Somebody like
George Murchison.

I wouldn't marry that
narrow-minded, little bourgeois

if he was Adam
and I was Eve.

Adam ain't have
no money either.

Is something wrong?

He come into his manhood
today.

He sure did.

[LAUGHING]

Why don't you go
on down, honey.

I'll be down directly.

Okay.

WALTER:
Come on, Mama.

Oh, all right.
All right, baby, all right.

All right.

LENA:
Lord have mercy.

How could I go off
and forget my plant?

Thank you, son.

Thank you, Mama.