Guess who comes to eat
| Movie | |
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| German title | Guess who comes to eat |
| Original title | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Stanley Kramer |
| script | William Rose |
| production | George Glass |
| music | Frank De Vol |
| camera | Sam Leavitt |
| cut | Robert C. Jones |
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Guess who comes for dinner is a film by director Stanley Kramer from 1967. The main theme of the film is racism in the liberal, upper-class milieu of US society in the 1960s. In addition, gender and generation conflicts are shown.
action
Joanna Drayton, a young white American, brings her fiancé, the African American Dr. John Prentice, from a trip to Hawaii, and introduces him to her parents. If John were white, he would be the absolute dream son-in-law: educated, humble, polite and professionally highly successful. But due to his skin color and the prevailing racism in the environment of Joanna's parents, problems are inevitable.
The plot revolves mainly around the reactions of parents, their friends and their black housekeeper. Rich, liberal parents, the Draytons raised their daughter that way. But a relationship with a black goes too far for them. In the course of the film, John's parents also arrive at the Draytons for dinner, and there are numerous dialogues between the various actors, in the course of which numerous arguments and opinions for and against the relationship are exchanged. The two young people's mothers are more for the relationship, while the fathers, especially John's father, are against it. In turn, Monsignor Mike Ryan, a clergyman and longtime friend of the Drayton family, is fully committed to the relationship. The film ends with Joanna's father giving up his resistance in a monologue and giving his consent to the connection.
particularities
This is the last Spencer Tracy film . Everyone involved knew that he only had a few weeks to live. No insurance company wanted to take on the risk of failure of a leading actor. Stanley Kramer and Katharine Hepburn then deposited money as security so that the film could have ended with another actor.
Hepburn's tears during Tracy's final monologue were real. They both knew it would be his last sentence in a movie. Tracy died 17 days later. Hepburn did not see the final version of this film because the memories of Tracy are too painful.
Reviews
“A daughter from a good family presents the shocked parents with her future fiancé: a black man. Well-intentioned, conciliatory stirrer. "
“Stanley Kramer's sentimental, excellently played comedy skilfully juggles the issue of race. Leading actor Spencer Tracy died shortly after filming. Leading actress Katharine Hepburn received an Oscar for her outstanding acting performance. Another went to screenwriter William Rose. 'A really wonderful film', the New York Post cheered after the premiere. An unexpected response, because after all, the film deals with a sensitive topic at the time. "
“A formally unconvincing, sometimes sentimental discussion comedy about mixed marriage. Can only be viewed thanks to good actors (Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier), but not a serious contribution to a current topic of American domestic politics. "
Awards
The film received two awards from a total of ten Academy Award nominations : Katharine Hepburn for best actress and William Rose for its script. Spencer Tracy was posthumously nominated for his role. For Katharine Hepburn it was her second Oscar. A year later, she would receive her third Oscar for The Lion in Winter .
The film won the United Nations Award at the BAFTA Awards in 1969 . The American Film Institute voted the film 99th in the 1998 list of the 100 Best Movies of All Time.
The film was entered into the National Film Registry in 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guess who comes to eat. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 156/1968
Web links
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photos for the film