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Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming To Dinner's groundbreaking story deals with interracial marriage. Interracial marriage has been illegal in most of the USA, and was still illegal in seventeen southern American states up until June 12 of the year of the film's release. Because of this, I have been intrigued to see the message the film was going to send. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is a beautiful, inspiring yet thought-provoking story about two races joining together. It felt like a peace-making kind of situation between the two families by two races trying to get along for their children. This film reminded me a lot of both Meet The Parents and Meet The Fockers apart from Guess Who's Coming To Dinner isn't a comedy.
The cast are another thing in this film that I was deeply interested in. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn made their 9th and final on-screen partnership. Spencer Tracy died 17 days after the filming ended. Spencer Tracy's final performance as Matt Drayton was absolutely AMAZING!! This is the first film that I have seen from Tracy but his other films seem hard to overtake Guess Who's Coming To Dinner as his best film. Tracy's performance as Matt Drayton was a lot like Robert De Niro's performance in Meet The Parents. Katharine Hepburn delivers another legendary performance as Christina Drayton. I could see the real emotion in Katharine Hepburn's eyes during this film. In the last scene of the film, she was crying in real life, apparently, because it was going to be her last on-screen partnership with Tracy anyway even though he died. Sidney Poitier's performance was absolutely brilliant! I found it to be a very brave choice to play a character like Dr. John Prentice because Dr. Prentice is a man who has met a young white girl, they're engaged, he has met her parents and they are uneasy of them to marry because of his skin colour. There are families who would feel awkward with this but at the end of the day, they're still a human being. Katharine Houghton delivers a good performance too as Joanna "Joey" Drayton. Houghton is Hepburn's on-screen daughter but is her real-life niece.
Stanley Kramer creates a beautiful, heart-warming and thought-provoking masterpiece that has touched a lot of hearts within everyone who has seen this film. It became a huge effect in USA when the film when it was released back in 1967. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is one of those rare films where the whole film is set in one day. I absolutely love films like that. They obviously didn't film it all in one day.
Overall, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is a beautiful, inspiring and thought-provoking film that will touch your heart whatever race you are. Definitely one of my new favourite films!! Recommend it to EVERYONE!
10/10
