Guess who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, and Katharine Houghton
Genre: comedy-drama
my rating: 3/5

An upper class white American couple who have taught their young daughter, Joey, to treat everybody equally despite their race are shocked as she appears one day with a black man whom she has just been engaged to.

Although they were the ones who taught their daughter to respect African Americans (who weren't respected in many areas of their country at that time), they did not expect her to want to marry one.

Joey's parents are put to the test when he says he will not marry Joey without their agreement.

Joey's mother, Christina is supportive about her daughter's marriage from the beginning when she realizes how Joey and Dr Prentice like each other.

Then Dr Prentice's parents arrive, also stunned that their son is engaged to a white woman.

His mother is supportive too.

Only the two fathers show they are not convinced.

In the end, Tracy's father gives an emotive speech and the whole family starts having dinner.

The film takes place in a few locations, mostly Joey's parents' house is San Fransisco.

Guess who's Coming to Dinner is one of the 100 Greatest Movies of the past 100 years.

It has won 8 awards, including 2 Oscars and 20 nominations.

It has very entertaining dialogue and has won a Best Screenplay Oscar.

I think this is a movie that everybody should watch; it focuses on racial issues and the society at the time of the movie.