Guess Whos Coming to Dinner
Joanna, the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton and his patrician wife Christina, returns home with her new fiance John Prentice, a distinguished black doctor. As old-line liberals, but still, the parents aren't completely prepared for it.
3 June 1914, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA
13 July 1918, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
5 March 1920, Stanton, Iowa, USA
20 July 1937, Detroit, Michigan, USA
12 May 1907, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
5 May 1942, Detroit, Michigan, USA
22 August 1893, Cape Town, South Africa
20 February 1927, Miami, Florida, USA
12 July 1920, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
August 15, 1936
April 06, 2011
...rather tame and superficial by today's standards: a gentle, sentimental comedy on the subject of interracial marriage.
November 07, 2007
Tracy looks tired in this draggy production; he died soon afterward, and it's infuriating to watch him sweat to inject fire into such pap.
May 09, 2005
A most delightfully acted and gracefully entertaining film.
August 10, 2006
Billed in 1967 as Hollywood's first serious film about interracial marriage, this theatrical movie begs one question: What mother in her right mind will object to Sidney Poitier as a fiance to her daughter--he's handsome, renowned pro, and gentleman
February 13, 2001
Examines its subject matter with perception, depth, insight, humor and feeling
June 24, 2006
A wishy-washy, sanctimonious plea for tolerance, directed with Kramer's customary verbosity and stodginess.
January 26, 2014
...an appealing premise that's employed to watchable (if entirely uneven) effect by filmmaker Stanley Kramer...
October 23, 2004
It would be easy to tear the plot to shreds and catch Kramer in the act of copping out. But why? On its own terms, this film is a joy to see, an evening of superb entertainment.
January 02, 2011
Civil rights, love, and family stress.
November 07, 2007
A disaster on all counts -- its time, if it ever had one, has definitely passed.
November 07, 2007
There are wonderful performances here, as you'd expect from Hepburn and Tracy, and there's no question that the film is well intentioned. Yet it's also hamfisted and self-congratulatory in the most galling way.
