Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
Screened in 2002 (Saturday, August 31st 2002 at Creek Park in San Anselmo)
Sponsored by Lo Coco's Pizzeria
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1967
108 min Houghton arrives home after a Hawaiian vacation to announce to
parents Tracy and Hepburn that she is about to wed a brilliant research
physician, Poitier, who is Black. This creates considerable social turmoil
for the upper-middle-class family. Poitier tells the parents that unless
they give their unreserved consent he will not marry their daughter,
thereby putting the responsibility for the interracial marriage squarely
upon their shoulders. After some soul-searching and breaking with friends
who oppose miscegenation, the parents back up the young couple. Hepburn, with
her blithely resolute air and great, watering eyes, is magnanimous as
always; watching her watch Tracy during his big speech is one of the
film's best Moments. The other? Hepburn in the driveway, banishing an
ex-friend: "Don't say anything, Hillary, just---go."
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