Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a film directed by Stanley Kramer in 1967. The main theme of the movie is the racism in the liberal, upper middle-class milieu of U.S. society in the 1960s. In addition, the gender and generational conflict are presented.

Content

Joanna Drayton, a young white American who brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice African American with a Hawaii trip and introduces him to her parents. Would John a white man he would be an absolute dream son-in: educated, modest, polite and professionally highly successful. But because of his skin color problems are programmed.

The plot revolves mainly around the reactions of the parents, their friends and their black domestic help. The Drayton's are rich, liberal parents and their daughter also brought up that way. A relationship with a black man but them goes too far. As the film progresses and Johns parents arrive at the Drayton's for dinner, and there are numerous dialogues between the various actors in the course of numerous arguments and opinions for and against the relationship be replaced. The mothers of two young people are more likely for the relationship, whereas the fathers, especially John's father, are against it. Monsignor Mike Ryan again, a minister and longtime friend of the Drayton family, enters a reservation for the relationship. The film ends with the fact that Joanna's father in a monologue gives up its resistance and the connection given its consent.

Special

This is the last film with Spencer Tracy. All participants knew that he had to live only a few weeks. No insurance would therefore assume the default risk of a lead actor. Stanley Kramer and Katharine Hepburn were then deposited as security money to make the movie with another actor could have been terminated.

The tears of Hepburn during the final monologue of Tracy were real. Both knew that it would be his last sentence in a movie. Tracy died 17 days later. Hepburn saw the final version of this film not because the memories of Tracy were too painful.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film: A Dutiful Daughter presented the shocked parents her future fiancé: a black man. Well-intentioned, conciliatory melodrama.
  • Prism Online: Stanley Kramer's sentimental, excellent played comedy juggling skillfully with the racial problems. Lead actor Spencer Tracy died shortly after the shooting. For their great performances lead actress Katharine Hepburn won an Oscar. Another went to screenwriter William Rose. " A truly wonderful film ," beamed the time the New York Post after the premiere. An unexpected echo, because after all, the film deals with a sensitive issue at the time.
  • Protestant movie watchers ( criticism No 156/ 1968): A formal little convincing, sometimes into sentimentality slide on discussion comedy about mixed marriage. Only thanks to good actor ( Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier ) watchable, but no serious contribution to a current issue of U.S. domestic politics.

Awards

The film received Oscar nominations for a total of ten two awards: Best Actress Katharine Hepburn and William Rose for his screenplay. Spencer Tracy was posthumously nominated for his role. For Katharine Hepburn, it was her second Oscar. You should have already received a year later for The Lion in Winter her third Oscar. The American Film Institute selected the film in the 1998's list of the 100 best of all time at number 99

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