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Title: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Spencer Tracy | ... | Matt Drayton | |
| Sidney Poitier | ... | John Prentice | |
| Katharine Hepburn | ... | Christina Drayton | |
| Katharine Houghton | ... | Joey Drayton | |
| Cecil Kellaway | ... | Monsignor Ryan | |
| Beah Richards | ... | Mrs. Prentice | |
| Roy Glenn | ... | Mr. Prentice (as Roy E. Glenn Sr.) | |
| Isabel Sanford | ... | Tillie (as Isabell Sanford) | |
| Virginia Christine | ... | Hilary St. George | |
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Alexandra Hay | ... | Carhop |
| Barbara Randolph | ... | Dorothy | |
| D'Urville Martin | ... | Frankie | |
| Tom Heaton | ... | Peter | |
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Grace Gaynor | ... | Judith |
| Skip Martin | ... | Delivery Boy | |
After a period of vacation in Hawaii, Joanna "Joey" Drayton returns to her parents' home in San Francisco bringing her fiancé, the high-qualified Dr. John Prentice, to introduce him to her mother Christina Drayton that owns an art gallery and her father Matt Drayton that is the publisher editor of the newspaper The Guardian. Joey was raised with a liberal education and intends to get married with Dr. John Prentice that is a black widower and needs to fly on that night to Geneva to work with the World Health Organization. Joey invites John's parents Mr. Prentice and Mrs. Prentice to have dinner with her family and the couple flies from Los Angeles to San Francisco without knowing that Joey is white. Christina invites also the liberal Monsignor Ryan, who is friend of her family. Along the day and night, the families discuss the problems of their son and daughter. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Seeing this film for the first time more than thirty years after it was made, I was struck by the theme's endurance in time. It remains relevant today, even if not to the same degree. And even though I'm almost thirty years old, I can say with mixed emotions of embarrassment and vindication, that Spencer Tracy taught me a better way to tie a tie. Who's says movies don't teach you anything?
The film is dated, to be sure, by many things, from clothing to music, cars and expressions. At times the dialogue seemed a bit hokey, and others, simply brilliant. I swear, I half expected an entourage of go-go dancers to spontaneously burst through the streets of San Francisco. And if I never hear the "Story Of Love" ever again in my life, it would be too soon.
But I can't help but think that the more things change in thirty years, sometimes they remain the same. Certainly there's more examples of interracial couples today than thirty years ago, and therefore a greater degree of tolerance, but for a lot of narrow-minded individuals, it's still as controversial or "appalling" as it was thirty years ago.
Some of the lines actually had me laughing out loud, enjoying the moment as it follows into another well complimented scene. I'm speaking in particular of the scene where Katharine Hepburn fires her employee for her prejudicial views, and basically everything that follows that scene for the next five minutes.
I try my best to imagine what it would be like to be in the shoes of any character in the film, to appreciate what it might've been like for them, in that time, and while I think I can muster an inkling, I don't think my creativity is up to a challenge of that nature. And I think that ultimately, that's a good thing, and I'm grateful to those who came before.