Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
“A love story of today.”
Stanley KramerCast
Spencer Tracy 
Sidney Poitier 
Katharine Hepburn 
Katharine Houghton 
Cecil Kellaway 
Beah Richards Roy E. Glenn Sr. Isabel Sanford
Credits
Written by: William Rose
Plot
A young white woman, Joey, brings home her fiancé, the distinguished black doctor John Prentice, to meet her liberal San Francisco parents and announces that they plan to marry within days. Her father, a newspaper publisher, and her mother, an art gallery owner, find that their own beliefs are tested. It was the last film of Spencer Tracy.
Sinekatalog’s take
A dinner-table drama that sometimes plays like a play, but with Tracy, Hepburn and Poitier at the table it matters little. It has dated in places, yet the final speech is still moving.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.8 / 10 (53,368 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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