| | | A Love Story of Today.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, French, Spanish
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award as 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 a 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 daughter's decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by the interracial union, and the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, director Stanley Kramer has created a masterful study of society's prejudices.
"...an intelligent, thoughtful and sentimental take on an issue that's alive and kicking over 30 years later." Crazy for Cinema
"Examines its subject matter with perception, depth, insight, humor and feeling..." Variety
Editor's Note
A liberal white couple (Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, in Tracy's last appearance) put their platitudes to the test. They always taught their daughter (Katharine Houghton, Hepburn's niece) that all people are created equal, regardless of race or religion... until she unexpectedly brings home a black doctor (Poitier) and announces that they're engaged. Academy Award Nominations: 10, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor--Spencer Tracy.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 8/26/2008 |
| Running Time: 107 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1967 | | Catalog ID: 21100 | | UPC: 00043396211001 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Winner (1969) | | | British Academy Awards, Spencer Tracy, Best Actor | | | British Academy Awards, Katharine Hepburn, Best Actress | | | British Academy Awards, Stanley Kramer, UN Award | |
Winner (1968) | | | Oscar, Katharine Hepburn, Best Actress in a Leading Role | | | Oscar, William Rose, Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen | |
Nominee (1968) | | | Oscar, Spencer Tracy, Best Actor in a Leading Role | | | Oscar, Cecil Kellaway, Best Actor in a Supporting Role | | | Oscar, Beah Richards, Best Actress in a Supporting Role | | | Oscar, Stanley Kramer, Best Director | | | Oscar, Stanley Kramer, Best Picture | | | Oscar, Frank De Vol, Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment | | | Oscar, Robert C. Jones, Best Film Editing | | | Oscar, Robert Clatworthy, Frank Tuttle, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
"Hepburn's extraordinary commitment to Tracy still sears the screen." 03/01/2004 p.7Empire
4 stars out of 5 -- "[O]verall a compassionate and often funny argument that all you need is love." 03/01/2008 p.142 Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
"Yes, there are serious faults in Stanley Kramer's ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,"" but they are overcome by the virtues of this delightfully old-fashioned film. 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...Entertainment, I think, is the key word here. Kramer has taken a controversial subject (interracial marriage) and insulated it with every trick in the Hollywood bag. There are glamorous star performances by Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy made more poignant by his death...All of these deep profundities aside, however, let me say that ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" is a magnificent piece of entertainment. It will make you laugh and may even make you cry. When old, gray-haired, weather-beaten Spencer Tracy turns to Katharine Hepburn and declares, by God, that he DOES remember what it is like to be in love, there is nothing to do but believe him." - Roger Ebert
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