Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967   N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards, Isabel Sanford, Roy Glenn, Virginia Christine, Tom Heaton, Alexandra Hay, Barbara Randolph, D'Urville Martin, Skip Martin
When Joey's (Katharine Houghton) parents (Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy) discover their daughter is going to marry a Black man (Sidney Poitier), they express their concerns and disapproval. For 1967, this movie dealt with racism in a mature manner. Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar for her role. The film also won an Academy Award for Best Writing and was nominated for eight more, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Cecil Kellaway), and Supporting Actress (Beah Richards). 2 User Reviews
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| | Relevant Social Film | AvidMovieFan 09/22/2007 | | This film in all its glory was groundbreaking in revealing the human spirit in what and how race matters in America. I loved this film because it captures the true feelings in each of us and challenges the status quo to "marry someone of your own race". Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy offer stellar performances along with Sir Sydney Poitier and Katherine Houghton. The film is set in beautiful San Francisco and offers a sense of hope to all who view the world as colorblind. The year this film was made Jim Crow was still active in this country and challenges us to look inside ourselves and question self-prejudice. Excellent film for all, especially for people who are in and interracial relationship. The line at the end, "you'll just have to hold on to each other tight" and don't give a DAMN what anybody thinks is priceless! |
| | Should a rich white girl marry a black nobel prize winner? | 1fatts 03/26/2007 | I really wanted to like this film.
It was Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy . . . in fact, Tracy's last film. Stanley Kramer directed. And in 1967 to dislike anything Sidney Poitier was in was seen, pretty much in itself, as an act of racism.
But the film -- its comedy and its "importance" -- turned, ultimately, on the conflict caused by the white woman and the black man wanting to marry. And it was all a straw man. The girl (Katherin Houghton), aside from playing about as vivid as a cardboard cutout of a Bryn Mawr recruitment ad, faced no sacrifice of money, position, parental angst, or anything else. The boy was a PhD, brilliant, a guaranteed financial and professional success and spoke the Queen's English with an ease and sophistication that John Gilgood could have envied.
In short: no conflict, no tension, no comedy, no "significance".
"In the Heat of the Night" it wasn't. Maybe "in the cool of the cocktail hour." |
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Hickey & Boggs 1972  PG, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Culp
Cast: Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, Rosalind Cash, Sheila Sullivan, Isabel Sanford, Ta-Ronce Allen, Lou Frizzell, Nancy Howard, Bernard Nedell, Carmen, Louis Morino, Robert Mandan
Less-than-successful L.A. private eyes Al Hickey (Bill Cosby) and Frank Boggs (Robert Culp) are hired to search for a missing woman. On the trail, they uncover a drug deal and end up tracking down thugs responsible for a $40,000 robbery when they learn that the missing girl is trying to sell the bills from the robbery.
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Love at First Bite 1979  PG, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stan Dragoti
Cast: George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, Dick Shawn, Isabel Sanford, Arte Johnson, Sherman Hemsley, Barry Gordon, Ronnie Schell, Michael Pataki
This modern-day Count Dracula (George Hamilton) is deported from Transylvania and ends up in the blood bank of New York City trying to satisfy his vampire needs. He meets and falls in love with fashion model Cindy Soundheim (Susan Saint James) much to the dismay of her boyfriend, Dr. Jeff Rosenberg (Richard Benjamin).
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| 1. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
2. Hickey & Boggs (1972)
3. Love at First Bite (1979)
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