Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Movie · Drama · Classics

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award® for 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 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 this interracial union; 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.

1967 · 1h 48m
Director Stanley Kramer

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

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Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award® for 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 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 this interracial union; 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.

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Civil rights, love, and family drama in '60s classic.

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Average 7
Reviews 38
Fresh 27
Rotten 11

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Studio
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Released
1967
Run Time
1 hr 48 min
Rated
Unrated
Region of Origin
United States
© 1967 renewed 1995 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, Dolby Atmos), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), English (United States) , Arabic (Saudi Arabia) , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Danish (Denmark) , Dutch , Finnish (Finland) , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek (Greece) , Hebrew (Israel) , Hungarian , Italian (Italy) , Korean (South Korea) , Norwegian (Norway) , Polish (Poland) , Spanish (Latin America) , Swedish (Sweden) , Thai (Thailand)

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Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.