| | | A love story of today.
Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), English, Subtitled, French
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 (Houghton), the beautiful daughter of a crusading publisher, Matthew Drayton (Tracy), and his patrician wife, Christina (Hepburn), returns home with her new fiancé, John Prentice (Poitier), a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by this 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.
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 | Scene Selection | | Full Screen And Widescreen Formats | | 3-Channel Discrete Audio | | English Subtitles | | French Subtitles | | Theatrical Trailer | | Interactive Menus | | English Audio | | French Audio |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 12/21/2004 |
| Running Time: 108 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1967 | | Catalog ID: 05419 | | UPC: 00043396054196 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1968) |  | Katharine Hepburn, Winner, Best Actress | | William Rose, Winner, Best Writing, Story And Screenplay--Written Directly For The Screen | | | Spencer Tracy, Nominee, Best Actor | | | Cecil Kellaway, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor | | | Beah Richards, Nominee, Best Supporting Actress | | | Stanley Kramer, Nominee, Best Director | | | Stanley Kramer, Nominee, Best Picture |
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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 |
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