Review of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) by Marla — 10 Jul 2008

I am a huge Stanley Kramer fan and love his choices of topics that hold the mirror up to our society (circa 1967, though the plot is somewhat dated 40+ years later). I thought Sidney Poitier was just terrific and stood toe-to-toe with Spencer Tracy (not, in my opinion, an easy feat).

It was also a bittersweet treat to see screen icon Katharine Hepburn working with her longtime love Spencer Tracy while he was terminally ill (he passed away shortly after filming wrapped). On a lighter note, it was interesting seeing Hepburn work with her niece and namesake, Katharine Houghton.

Hands down best line of the film was delivered by Poitier to his disapproving father (played by Roy E. Glen, Jr.), "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".