Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

1967, NR, 108 min. Directed by Stanley Kramer. Starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Beah Richards.

REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Thu., Feb. 15, 2001

An interracial couple's marriage plans throw the white girl's liberal parents for a loop. Spencer Tracy makes his last screen appearance here.

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