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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
RRP: $14.94Our Price: $12.10 (subject to change)Editorial
Product Description
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton) the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn) returns home with her new fiance John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughters decision to marry John but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; the doctors parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each others level of intolerance. In GUESS WHOS COMING TO DINNER director Stanley Kramer has created a masterful study of societys prejudices.System Requirements:Approx. 109 Min. Color StereoFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â COMEDY Rating:Â UPC:Â 043396054196 Manufacturer No:Â 05419
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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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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
I'm so discusted with AmazonReview date: 2010-08-18 Rating: 2 out of 10I ordered this as a gift and had it sent directly to someone. They received a USED DVD! Plainly marked USED on a sticker on the DVD, not sealed, not in a box, NOT NEW! I didn't see anywhere on Amazon that it wasn't new.
ReviewsdissapointedReview date: 2010-06-23 Rating: 2 out of 10Ordered DVD but recieved VHS after numerous attempts to return it i was unable to get correct information, shipping label and to return it now i am stuck with a movie that will never be seen and i feel ripped off. I will not order from Amazon again due to the return policy and lack of avaliability to contact you.A Timeless example of societyReview date: 2010-06-10 Rating: 10 out of 10The theme of an interracial couple might sound outdated these days. But as i watch this movie today I really don't see it that distant from our current times. The fact that we all have equal rights does not mean that we all love each other. Also the themes of the movie extend far beyond the black and white relationship. It's about acceptance of a different culture and how even though we might tell ourselves we have no-preconceptions about a specific race. The truth is we all think like Mr. Drayton at one point or another. The human being is more complex than the definitions a political or religious party might assign to you. Unnecessary is to say the dialogues here are a work of genius. More than 80% of the movie takes place between 2 rooms, yet the arguments are not only engaging but enlightening as well.Sidney Poitier Fan!!Review date: 2010-04-13 Rating: 8 out of 10I had never seen this movie but saw the remake with Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher. I enjoyed this movie a little boring because a message was being made when this movie came out. The acting was wonderful and if you watch you'll notice there wasn't much music in this movie either. All in all I loved it. Must have if you are a fan of old movies; Poitier fan.Classic and Important MoviesReview date: 2010-03-18 Rating: 10 out of 10This is by far one of the most important movies in the last century. I am most pleased with the quality of this film. There are so many ways the effects of this work of art can be applied throughout one's life.
Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s):
Katharine Hepburn
Spencer Tracy
Sidney Poitier
Katharine Houghton
Cecil Kellaway
Creators:
Sam Leavitt (Cinematographer)
Stanley Kramer (Producer)
Robert C. Jones (Editor)
George Glass (Producer)
William Rose (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony PicturesEAN: 9780767821483Binding: DVDISBN: 0767821483Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Release date: 1999-02-02Universal product code (UPC): 043396054196Number of discs: 1Aspect ratio: 1.85:1Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)Region code: 1Running time: 108 minutesTheatrical release date: 1967-12-12Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Original Language)
Brand: Sony
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