Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). The film has been knocked over the years for padding conflict and stoking easy liberalism by making Poitier's character in every socio-economic sense a good catch: But what if Kramer had made this stranger a factory worker? Would the audience still find it as easy to accept a mixed-race relationship? But there's... no denying the drawing power of this movie, which gets most of its integrity from the stirring performances of Tracy and Hepburn. When the former (who had been so ill that the production could not get completion insurance) gives a speech toward the end about race, love, and much else, it's impossible not to be affected by the last great moment in a great actor's life and career. --Tom Keogh [show more]
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Stanley Kramer directs this classic comedy drama starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier. Upper class couple Matt Drayton (Tracy) and wife Christina (Hepburn) are lost for words when their daughter, Joey (Katharine Houghton), returns from her Hawaiian holiday with a fiancé in tow. What shocks them is not so much that Joey is to wed, but that her proposed husband - research scientist John Prentice (Poitier) - is an African American. The Draytons have always believed themselves to be broad-minded, liberal people, but find their ideals put to the test when John says that the wedding will not go ahead without their whole-hearted approval. The film won two Academy awards for Best Writing and Best Actress in a Leading Role (Hepburn) and was nominated for a further eight.
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