Starring: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier,
Katherine Hepburn, Katherine Houghton
Director: Stanley Kramer
Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance) 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katherine 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 others level of intolerance.
Run Time: 1hr 48min