Amazon.com essential video: 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 from the stirring performances of Tracy and Hepburn. When the former (who had been so ill that the production could not get completion insurance) gives a speech toward the end about race, love, and much else, it's impossible not to be affected by the last great moment in a great actor's life and career. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - Guess Who Coming To Dinner
I'm a die-hard Sidney Poitier fan. This is a must own. I was disappointed that the 40th anniversary edition did not feature Sidney but featured the Director Stanley Kramer. I did not mind knowing a little bit about the him--I just could have live without so much info on him to the point where I got bored. They could have done something on the actors and actresses and even greater...on Sidney. I just could live without the second disc so dont call it a bonus feature. The acting was great and ... Read More
Rating: - Fabulous!!!
The film arrived super quickly - this film is amazing and never gets old! Check it out!!!
Rating: - Guess who's not really that impressed...
Understand that I understand that this movie probably had a much deeper impact upon its release, and that my review may actually be harsher that it would be had I actually seen it in 1967 and not 2008, but also please understand that regardless of when a film was released, it is open to judgment based on its `aging' factor. That said; I don't think `Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' holds up.
The film tells the story of John Wade and Joey Drayton, an interracial couple who met in Hawaii. ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant and ageless!
I watched years ago when it first came out and keep on watching it each time I see it on TV. Now I own the video. A pure classic, with brilliant actors, some that we will miss forever. Deep and wonderful movie. Sidney Poitier is a class act! A four-star movie.
Rating: - Thematic still applicable today; great movie
"Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" is nothing short of fantastic. It is funny, smart, brilliant, thoughtful, and altogether great. The performances by Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katherine Hepburn were phenomenal. I especially liked the performances by Hepburn and Tracy as their characters were confronted by their own unconscious racism and discrimination when they though they were extremely liberal.
This couple raised a daughter, Joanna, to be extremely liberal and to believe in the ... Read More
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