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Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

jimwest08607 How do they do it? Here is the list of ingredients - A) a Magical Black Superman who is loaded with super powers - handsome, a doctor, a Nobel Prize nominee (!!!), so noble that he refused sex before marriage, and he wouldn't even marry the girl without her parents' consent (This writer is completely heterosexual, but if I met a guy like that, I'd marry that dude myself). B)The girl's parents were played by American Cinema's First Couple, Film Integrity Personified, whose very presence led credence to the premise of the film. C) The bulk of the angry dissent is assigned to the poor, working class, and easily dismissible "colored" father, who has been left to the past by his Magical Black Son. In a scene completely devoid of reality, the Son castigates his father in brilliant cinematic fashion (an act which would have gotten him immediately popped in the mouth in any real Black family of that era, even at that age. Kramer,obviously, never spent a moment in a Black home in his life. That level of disrespect for parents was unheard of in Black families at that time. If the quiet, docile mother had walked in during that dramatic tirade, she would have slapped her Son, herself - "Boy, have you lost your mind???....". ) D) The rest of the angry dissent was saved for Kramer's most tone deaf moment in the film, when the White family's self-sacrificing "good colored girl" maid, in full throttle, Hattie McDaniel-inspired form, throws herself in front of her virtuous White charge, and savagely attacks the Magical Black Man for having the audacity to forget his place. Kramer really played to the heart of his target audience with this scene, allowing them to vent, through privileged laughter, at a stereotype that they had lived with so comfortably for generations. Kramer, with this scene, was blissfully dismissive of the sensitivities of the Civil Rights era Black audiences who helped to make this movie a hit. This scene was played for laughs and it is often fondly recalled by fans of the film. Rest assured, however, the gales of laughter this scene caused in Manhattan's Upper East Side was matched, pound for pound, with groans of anger (and worse) in Harlem. Yes, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER was made for easy digestion by a generation of infants with weak and sensitive stomachs. The question of course now is, 51 years later, has that generation truly grown up?

mark.waltz With three huge hits in 1967, Sidney Poitier claimed his reign as the biggest star in Hollywood, over Redford, over Newman, over McQueen. No actor took on such films with social consequence and won both scorn and admiration for it. Controversy loomed because white audiences loved him, and for some black moviegoers considered him an "Uncle Tom". But if only a handful of bigoted white people came out of seeing a Sidney Poitier movie seeing an actor and a man rather than a black actor or a black man, then he made just as much headway in the civil rights movement as the marches did.Coming out just as the supreme court legalized interracial marriage, thus tackles the subject head on. Perhaps its too polite, too upper middle class, too clean cut, but there it is, an attempt to tackle a topical subject, and it opened a conversation where the answers are completely all over the map today.The beautiful Katherine Houghton comes home with a surprise for her "nice" parents, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, decent people but stunned by the news. Actually, Hepburn is more open to the idea, as earthy and understanding as husband Tracy is old school. When Poitiers's parents arrive, the discussion comes to a head, and like Hepburn, Poitiers's soft spoken mother (Beah Richards) is more open to the idea than Poitiers's frightened father (Roy Glenn) who is old fashioned elegance and proud, but locked in old ideals.Isabel Sanford, as Tracy and Hepburn's housekeeper, represents the outsiders point of view from the black angle, while Virginia Christine is the uppity white person's point of view, deliciously told off by Hepburn. Grwsr moments in the script often make thus feel too "plotted" in every deal, with few awkward moments to represent the real life. But certain moments, such each of the major character's individual speeches (highlighted by Richards and Tracy's climactic viewpoints) are each brilliant in their own way. It's emotional to watch Hepburn and Tracy working together for the very last time, so being manipulated by the sentimentality can take over the soul while watching it. Still, as directed by the legendary Stanley Kramer, it comes out to be an important historical document on race relations, although in some aspects, it seems quite dated.

Siliw This movie tells a heavy topic in a very relax and easy-going way. In that ages, race is the biggest issue to stop anything it wants. Just like this movie. There is no doubt that those two young people love each other. Just like at the ending of this movie, Mrs.Prentice says that you can tell how deep they gets in love with each other from those eye contact. Will you still love your husband/wife no matter times past. This young couple does have little problems. They decide to engaged with out notice their family. But that is how love does. If you falling into love, you will do the same thing , no matter how others will look at you. Love is a safe shelter for you to against others.

Keith937 All I can say about this movie is that it is alright. Its well made and well acted throughout the movie and pretty entertaining. This movie is about a black man trying to marry a white woman. Because of this this movie has historical significance and a really meaningful meaning. This was an entertaining enough movie to recommend to others but it is nothing majorly special where I would tell someone that they have to go out and see it. I would also say its more of a one time watch because I don't think that it is worth watching more then once. Even though this is historically significant I still wouldn't say its something you need to go rush and see unless you're really into that kind of history.