Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ★★★ 1967

Controversial in its time. A young white woman brings her black fiance home to meet her parents. The situation truly tests their open-mindedness and understanding. Hepburn and Tracy (in his last film appearance) are wonderful and serve as the anchors in what would otherwise have been a rather sugary film. Houghton, who portrays the independent daughter, is the real-life niece of Hepburn. 108m/C VHS, DVD . Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards, Roy Glenn, Isabel Sanford; D: Stanley Kramer; W: William Rose; C: Sam Leavitt; M: Frank DeVol. Oscars ‘67: Actress (Hepburn), Story & Screenplay; AFI ‘98: Top 100; British Acad. ‘68: Actor (Tracy), Actress (Hepburn).

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