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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
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Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). The film has been knocked over the years for padding conflict and stoking easy liberalism by making Poitier's character in every socioeconomic sense a good catch: But what if Kramer had made this stranger a factory worker? Would the audience still find it as easy to accept a mixed-race relationship? But there's no denying the drawing power of this movie, which gets most of its integrity...
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| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Movie Review by Movie Addict (5/22/2007) |
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Why anyone would want to remake a classic, especially with someone like Ashton Kutcher, is beyond my comprehension.
This was the last time that Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn were together, and they joined one of the biggest stars of the sixties, Sidney Potier, to make this landmark film about race relations.
You...
(complete Guess Who's Coming to Dinner review by Movie Addict)
A very strange, wannabe revolutionary film about an upper class white girl who intends to marry a black man.
Sidney Poitier is certainly the most acceptable version of a black man to a conservative white family, but still there is conflict.
The most annoying thing about this film is the single-minded character of the...
(complete Guess Who's Coming to Dinner review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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