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Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award(r) for 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 crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn), returns home with her new fiance John Prentice (Sidney ...
Purchase Guess Who's Coming to Dinner on digital and stream instantly or download offline. After a ten-day Hawaiian vacation, Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton) returns to her San Francisco home with John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), her brand new fiancé. Although he's a successful doctor and a Nobel Prize candidate, her parents, Christina (Katharine Hepburn) and Matthew (Spencer Tracy), are ...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - well, when I first saw it in its initial release, I remember being confused by its purpose. What on paper was worthy and timely, I suppose it was, played as pathetic pandering - poor Mr. Poitier, underplaying with his usual skill, finesse and emotional rootedness, against several other 2-dimensional characters.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton. A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.
Set in the 1960s, this movie tells of a dinner party given by a bride’s parents to meet her fiancé (a doctor, no less) and his parents. The bride’s white parents are astonished to find that the groom is black and the groom’s parents are none too happy when they discover that the bride is a white girl.
Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is another of his Euclidean problems in human geometry, worked relentlessly through step-by-step to the last tear and the neat solution, ...
Poitier’s parents, Beah Richards and Roy E. Glenn Sr., also are faced with the question when they fly up for dinner (hence, the title). Peripheral characters, all of whom add a dimension to the ...
