Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Standard Edition)

It was a gift but they enjoyed it and it was good quality picture

Love this movie for the message of live a happy life with no need for others approval.Love is all you need....but beware of the trouble others may bring !Great cast . Funny and moving .I think it was Spencer Tracey last movie 🍿

After decades of avoiding this film believing that its premise was that a white man didn't want his daughter to date a black man - which seemed horrible and why would I watch a film about it? - I caught a drama on Radio 4 called 'That Dinner of '67" (highly recommended), which enlighten me as to what the film was really about and the feelings and thoughts behind the making of it. So I treated myself to the film and hugely enjoyed it. The dialogue is so well written and the acting is outstanding. Apparently Spencer Tracy was close to dying when the film was made but you really can't tell. Katharine Hepburn is also fantastic. And the wonderful Sidney Poitier was so overwhelmed at working with such greats that he had to perform many of his lines to an empty chair. He needn't have worried, he's as brilliant as usual too. There isn't just one black character in this film, there's five named people, all of whom have their own personalities rather than being 'the black person' and who go on their own journeys. Joey the daughter seems unrelentingly happy but I think she's a necessary counterpoint to all the anxiety and stress of the other characters, so in some respects she carries the film by balancing all the others out. Over all a very affecting and worthwhile watch. And there's some humour too.

Great movie, but not for the hard of hearing as no Subtitles

I remember this film as being a radical and controversial production when it came out. I recently rented it to show my wife, who had never seen it. I fully expected it to be dated, tame by modern standards and possibly inappropriate when judged by today's values. It turned out to be outstanding. The acting and scripting are superb and the message is powerful.The plot is fairly predictable: a middle-class white girl falls in love with a handsome black man and her liberal parents are confused and distressed. Then the couple invite his parents over to meet the while parents - "Guess who's coming to dinner" - and the black parents turn out to be as unhappy as the whites. However, love and sanity triumph and there is a happy ending.You have to be prepared to put yourself in the shoes of someone watching in the late 60s. The lead character calls himself a Negro and blacks generally are called "Coloured". But this is how it was in the 60s and there is no point in pretending otherwise. This film was a powerful challenge to racism in its time and needs to be seen in that light. The fact that some of the scenes seem inappropriate today shows that in a small way, it contributed to the improvements we have seen.

My parents took me to see this film back in the sixties and it stood me in good stead for the prejudice that I would witness when I moved to the big city. Over the decades attitudes have changed but still have room for improvement. We are a multi cultural world and we all live and breathe the same air.

Everyone should watch this film.

Value for money