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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

  • 1967
  • Approved
  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
47K
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Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Trailer for this classic starring Sidney Poitier
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ComedyDrama

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.

  • Director
    • Stanley Kramer
  • Writer
    • William Rose
  • Stars
    • Spencer Tracy
    • Sidney Poitier
    • Katharine Hepburn
  • See production, box office & company info
  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    47K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    4,676
    513
    • Director
      • Stanley Kramer
    • Writer
      • William Rose
    • Stars
      • Spencer Tracy
      • Sidney Poitier
      • Katharine Hepburn
    • 446User reviews
    • 82Critic reviews
    • 63Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 2 Oscars
      • 11 wins & 25 nominations total

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    Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
    Trailer 2:39
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    Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
    Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
    Sidney Poitier, Roy Glenn, Katharine Houghton, and Beah Richards in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
    Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
    Katharine Hepburn and Katharine Houghton in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
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    Sidney Poitier and Isabel Sanford in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
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    Top cast

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    Spencer Tracy
    Spencer Tracy
    • Matt Drayton
    Sidney Poitier
    Sidney Poitier
    • John Prentice
    Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn
    • Christina Drayton
    Katharine Houghton
    Katharine Houghton
    • Joey Drayton
    Cecil Kellaway
    Cecil Kellaway
    • Monsignor Ryan
    Beah Richards
    Beah Richards
    • Mrs. Prentice
    Roy Glenn
    Roy Glenn
    • Mr. Prentice
    • (as Roy E. Glenn Sr.)
    Isabel Sanford
    Isabel Sanford
    • Tillie
    • (as Isabell Sanford)
    Virginia Christine
    Virginia Christine
    • Hilary St. George
    Alexandra Hay
    Alexandra Hay
    • Carhop
    Barbara Randolph
    Barbara Randolph
    • Dorothy
    D'Urville Martin
    D'Urville Martin
    • Frankie
    Tom Heaton
    Tom Heaton
    • Peter
    Grace Gaynor
    • Judith
    Skip Martin
    Skip Martin
    • Delivery Boy
    John Hudkins
    John Hudkins
    • Cab Driver
    Garrett Cassell
    • Mailman
    • (uncredited)
    Natalie Core
    • Small Role
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Stanley Kramer
    • Writer
      • William Rose
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Katharine Hepburn never saw the completed movie. She said the memories of Tracy were too painful.
    • Goofs
      The car the Draytons are driving is a two-door sedan (with a pillar holding the roof up, and a full frame around the door glass) when seen in exterior shots. Once they're at the drive-in, it becomes a two-door hardtop (no pillar, and no frame around the glass).
    • Quotes

      John: You listen to me. You say you don't want to tell me how to live my life. So what do you think you've been doing? You tell me what rights I've got or haven't got, and what I owe to you for what you've done for me. Let me tell you something. I owe you nothing! If you carried that bag a million miles, you did what you're supposed to do! Because you brought me into this world. And from that day you owed me everything you could ever do for me like I will owe my son if I ever have another. But you don't own me! You can't tell me when or where I'm out of line, or try to get me to live my life according to your rules. You don't even know what I am, Dad, you don't know who I am. You don't know how I feel, what I think. And if I tried to explain it the rest of your life you will never understand. You are 30 years older than I am. You and your whole lousy generation believes the way it was for you is the way it's got to be. And not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs! You understand, you've got to get off my back! Dad... Dad, you're my father. I'm your son. I love you. I always have and I always will. But you think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man. Now, I've got a decision to make, hm? And I've got to make it alone, and I gotta make it in a hurry. So would you go out there and see after my mother?

    • Alternate versions
      When Monsignor Ryan is added to the guest list, Joey goes to tell Tillie. Joey asks "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" and Tillie replies "Reverend Martin Luther King". Following the assassination of King, this was removed - Joey says she'll tell Tillie but we see nothing more. Several months later, this gag was restored.
    • Connections
      Edited into Starring Katharine Hepburn (1981)
    • Soundtracks
      Glory of Love
      (1936)

      by Billy Hill

      Sung by Jacqueline Fontaine at the restaurant

      Sung offscreen by a chorus during opening and closing credits

      Played in the score often

    User reviews446

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    Featured review
    8/10
    One of the must see movies of all time...
    Here's a great way to spend an afternoon: watching some of the greatest actors of all time in a film that still has relevance today. Such a cast! Hepburn is wonderful as always, very energetic, with no trace of the shakiness of her later years.

    Tracy, gruff, the way most probably remember him - sort of a ratcheted up version of the roles he played with Hepburn in earlier years. His ill health is obvious though to the careful observer: voice a little weak at times, and Tracy's step missing the "spring" of his earlier films. The fact that this his last film was so memorable, and of such quality just adds to his legend.

    Potier of course turns in a great performance, impeccable as always.

    Watch for Isabel Sanford, ("The Jefferson's") particularly the one memorable scene where she explains to Potier's character just what "black power" really is.

    Cecil Kellaway sparkles as Monsignor Ryan, and Beah Richards and Roy Glenn, as the parents to Potier's character, mirror Hepburn and Tracy.

    Indeed, there is so much real honest-to-god acting talent concentrated in this movie, it seems almost unfair, what I'm about to say: Katharine Houghton, as 'Joey' is the only character with only 2 dimensions. She's the ever-smiling, but clueless daughter and object of Dr. Prentice' affection. She's such a Pollyanna, and remains oblivious to the drama going on all around her, and everyone else conspires to keep her in the dark throughout the entire film. (No wonder her father is concerned.) I think it's fair to say that Houghton's character is the one weak spot in this otherwise excellent film.

    That said, this is a wonderful film that I will always watch when it comes on. It's such a treat to watch these legendary actors at work. I highly recommend it.

    By the way, there's no glass in Spencer's eyeglasses during the ending monologue, is there – he's wearing only frames, right?
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    • Nov 27, 2005

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    • Is "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" based on a book?
    • Where did John and Joey meet?
    • So who is coming to dinner?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 12, 1967 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Pogodi ko dolazi na veceru
    • Filming locations
      • Mel's Drive-in - 5199 Mission Street, at Rolph Street, San Francisco, California, USA(ice cream drive-in location)
    • Production companies
      • Columbia Pictures
      • Stanley Kramer Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $4,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $56,666,667
    • Gross worldwide
      • $56,666,667
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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