50th Anniversary Edition of Classic Film GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER to Hit Blu-ray

A groundbreaking film classic that still resonates with audiences today celebrates a golden milestone when GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER: 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION arrives on Blu-ray Feb. 7 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

This edition, befitting the film's stature as an all-time classic, is digitally restored and will be presented for the first time in stunning Digibook packaging, with rare photos and an all-new essay from Gil Robertson, the co-founder and president of the African American Film Critics Association.

The acclaimed film, starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier, addressed key issues that remain relevant today with its story of a couple whose liberal attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African American fiancé.

Originally released in 1967, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER was nominated for 10 Academy Awards[1], winning two, including Best Actress for the legendary Hepburn.

Celebrate 50 years of this iconic and wonderful classic: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance) are unforgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katharine 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. Both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance. With this film, director Stanley Kramer has created a masterful study of society's prejudices.

Blu-ray Archival Bonus Features Include:

• Introductions by Tom Brokaw, Quincy Jones, Karen Kramer and Steven Spielberg
• Three Featurettes:
  • "A Love Story of Today" Featurette
  • "A Special Kind of Love" Featurette
  • Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
• 2007 Producers Guild of America "Stanley Kramer" Award Presentation to Al Gore
• Stanley Kramer Accepts The Irving Thalberg Award
• Photo Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER has a running time of 108 minutes and is not rated.

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[1] The film's other Academy Award winner is William Rose for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen. Additional nominations include Best Picture, Best Director (Stanley Kramer), Best Actor (Spencer Tracy), Best Supporting Actor, (Cecil Kellaway), Best Supporting Actress (Beah Richards), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Robert Clatworthy & Frank Tuttle), Best Film Editing (Robert C. Jones) and Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment (Frank De Vol).

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