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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
 
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SFC Reviewer's Opinion:
Recommended

Genre
Drama / Romance
   
Synopsis

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award as Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton), the beautiful daughter of a crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy), and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn), returns home with her new fiancee, John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; and the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. In 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner', director Stanley Kramer has created a masterful study of society's prejudices.

   
Directed by  
Stanley Kramer
   
Written by  
William Rose
   
Starring  
Spencer Tracy (Matt Drayton); Sidney Poitier (John Prentice); Katharine Hepburn (Christina Drayton); Katharine Houghton (Joey Drayton); Cecil Kellaway (Monsignor Ryan); Beah Richards (Mrs. Prentice); Roy Glenn (Mr. Prentice (as Roy E. Glenn, Sr.)); Isabel Sanford (Tillie (as Isabell Sanford)); Virginia Christine (Hilary St. George); Alexandra Hay (Carhop); Barbara Randolph (Dorothy); D'Urville Martin (Frankie); Tom Heaton (Peter); Grace Gaynor (Judith). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
 

Length (mins):
108
Ratings:
A (PG)
Language:
ENG

Big 5 Oscar Wins:
2
Big 5 Oscar Noms:
5
IMDB page:
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