Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
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aside from the acting (stellar performances all around, I must say) the movie was very sensitively done. I had seen Spike Lee's "jungle fever" and was less than impressed with his depiction of an interracial relationship. (no slight to mr. lee- I like some of... read more
Very effective film with important message...
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The story deals with the affluent white da... read more
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" Cecil Kellaway and Sidney Poitier Katharine Hepburn and Cecil Kellaway"

" Notes: First of all, it is important to remember that this movie was made already 50 years ago and, back in those days, the story was actually quite ground-breaking. Indeed, even if it seems hard to believe, at the time, it was actually forbidden by the law to marry someone white if you were black and the other way around in 14 states so, only for this reason, this movie was really important and should be respected. Still, I’m afraid it does feel rather outdated nowadays and all the characte"

" Notes: First of all, it is important to remember that this movie was made already 50 years ago and, back in those days, the story was actually quite ground-breaking. Indeed, even if it seems hard to believe, at the time, it was actually forbidden by the law to marry someone white if you were black and the other way around in 14 states so, only for this reason, this movie was really important and should be respected. Still, I’m afraid it does feel rather outdated nowadays and all the characte"
“talk about movies that are timeless and ahead of their time... I felt as if I'd been living under a rock when I saw this movie. aside from the acting”
“talk about movies that are timeless and ahead of their time... I felt as if I'd been living under a rock when I saw this movie. aside from the acting”

" Sidney Poitier as John Prentice and Katherine Houghton as Joanna Drayton Twenty-three year old Joanna Drayton's unannounced early return from her Hawaiian vacation causes a stir when she brings her new fiancé to her upper-class family home in San Francisco. He is John Prentice: a 37-year-old black (the 1967 dialogue uses the term Negro throughout) physician and medical professor, whom she met just 10 days prior, whose first wife and young son were killed in a train accident eight years earlier"