Oscar-winning screen legends Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy — in his final film role — star in the classic comedy-drama GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, which shattered on-screen taboos exactly 50 years ago, and returns to movie theaters nationwide for two days only on December 10 and 13 to celebrate its golden anniversary.
It’s the final film in Fathom Events’ 2017 TCM Big Screen Classics Series. (Look for details on the 2018 series to be announced soon!) Tickets are available now.
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER will play in more than 750 theaters nationwide on Sunday, December 10, and Wednesday, December 13 only, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. each day. Before and after the film, TCM host Tiffany Vazquez will present commentary about this groundbreaking classic, which is filled with dazzling dialogue, perfect performances and a remarkable mid-century style.
Still as riveting, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining as the day it was released (exactly 50 years ago, Dec. 12, 1967), GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER was produced and directed by legendary Stanley Kramer from a screenplay written by William Rose, and proved to be a box-office smash, grossing the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $386 million in the U.S.
Both Hepburn and Rose’s screenplay won Oscars for GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, in which she and Tracy play a liberal San Francisco couple whose daughter (Katharine Houghton in her screen debut) returns from a trip to Hawaii with an unexpected fiancé: John Prentice (Poitier). He sounds like everything they hope: a doctor who’s even a candidate for the Nobel Peace prize. What they don’t realize is that he’s black, and their leisurely dinner becomes an evening fraught with tension.
Their meeting together offers a microcosm of a nation in the midst of social upheaval, and got audiences talking about its treatment of subjects that had never before explored by a major Hollywood film.
Tickets for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner can be purchased online by visiting www.FathomEvents.com or at participating theater box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will be able to enjoy the event in more than 750 select movie theaters through Fathom’s Digital Broadcast Network (DBN). For a complete list of theater locations visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change).
