Have you ever saw the Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn. I saw it on TV late one night some years back and loved it. Today I was thinking about it and put it on my "Wish List" at Amazon. A very classy and elegant movie and it's always a treat to see how more "liberal" society approached matters of race during the era of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Did anyone see that silly-seeming remake with Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher? I haven't, and even though I bet there's some hysterical banter between Mac and Kutcher, I'm guessing it no where near stands up to the original.

Nhaiyel wrote:

Have you ever saw the Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn. I saw it on TV late one night some years back and loved it. Today I was thinking about it and put it on my "Wish List" at Amazon. A very classy and elegant movie and it's always a treat to see how more "liberal" society approached matters of race during the era of the Civil Rights Movement.

Now…

Did anyone see that silly-seeming remake with Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher? I haven't, and even though I bet there's some hysterical banter between Mac and Kutcher, I'm guessing it no where near stands up to the original.

Not for me. Any similarity between the two are a couple of words in the titles.

"Guess Who" doesn't really sound like my type of movie (being that it has Ashton Kutcher in it and all), but I have seen "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and I think that's a very good movie. Hepburn, Tracy and Poitier were all great in their roles.

I haven't seen the original, but I've seen the remake with Bernie and Ashton. That was a little corny. I barely laughed. And Bernie is one of my favorite comedians.

That was my first introduction to seeing Katharine Hepburn in a movie, I didn't care for her or the movie in general past the initial viewing though it was funny when they went out and Spencer Tracy was trying to remember the name of the boosenberry ice cream he wanted, and also when the preacher threatened to wrestle him to the floor. Spencer Tracy died shortly after finishing his scenes for that movie, and Katharine Hepburn lived to be 96 years old and could never bring herself to watch it.

Didn't see GUESS WHO, but it seemed like a flaky vanity vehicle to get Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher together in a movie. The previews didn't even look good.

Marc™ wrote:

Didn't see GUESS WHO, but it seemed like a flaky vanity vehicle to get Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher together in a movie. The previews didn't even look good.

THIS^, same with the Honeymooners, that's why I don't bother with a lot of the new remakes.

I never saw it in full, but it is one of those films that can be tagged: 'the right movie, at the right time.'