Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (40th Anniversary Edition) (1967)

Director: Stanley Kramer  Starring: Spencer Tracy  Sidney Poitier  Katharine Hepburn  
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Publisher: Sony Pictures
Format: DVD
UPC: 00043396211001
Buy.com Sku: 205068944
Item#: V2K9W6
Buy.com Sales Rank: 23830
Category Keywords: Classic  Essential Cinema  Parenthood  Race Relations  Recommended  Romance  Theatrical Release 
Rating: NR
 
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

Release Information
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 2/12/2008
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
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton
Sidney Poitier
Spencer Tracy
Frank De Vol - Original Music By
George Glass - Producer
Robert C. Jones - Editor
Robert Clatworthy - Production Designer
Sam Leavitt - Cinematographer
Stanley Kramer - Director
Stanley Kramer - Producer
William Rose - Writer

 
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

 
Professional Reviews
Total Film
"Hepburn's extraordinary commitment to Tracy still sears the screen." 03/01/2004 p.7

Empire
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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