Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine Houghton), the beautiful daughter of crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn), returns home with her new fiancé John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John, but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance.
Discuss the film with other moviegoers and enjoy drink specials across the street from the library at Glen Park Station after the movie. A presentation of Bay on Film Society.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is available free to borrow with your SFPL library card on DVD and streaming via Kanopy.
NR, 108 mins., 1967. Closed captions (CC) in English.
LOCATION:Glen Park - Glen Park Meeting Room CLASS:PUBLIC TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT1440M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Event Reminder - Film: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner END:VALARM END:VCALENDAR