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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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I'm going to speak frankly.
As a person who is by no means a leftist or a liberal, I found this film to be very moving. Most people who review the film I assume are liberals, so I guess I offer a different perspective.
For me, this is a sad film. It is sad because the vision of America that the liberals Tracy and Hepburn's characters have here just did not pan out. The moment when Poitier's character says "you see yourself as a colored man, but I see myself as a man" shows just what sort of society these people imagined we would have, and it's tragic that history did not turn out that way.
From the vantage point of 2017, race relations are worse than ever before. With SJWs, Affirmative Action, crime in the inner cities, anti-white racism, immigration problems etc, the vision that race would no longer matter just simply did not pan out. As whites today this film can only make us sad. It's tragic.
I almost wish things did turn out that way, that race in America could have become a nonfactor and that none of the crazy problems we face today exist, but they do. And so viewing this film in retrospect, it seems so innocent and naive in a tragic way.
Beautifully filmed with a San Francisco location and a lovely soundtrack, this is by all means a tremendous film, and I probably like it a little more than snotty liberals who probably can find this or that reason to view this film which to me seems progressive as "reactionary."