Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (1967)
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This film stars Katherine Houghton as a white woman who brings her African-American fiancé, Sidney Poitier, home to meet her parents. His progressive in-laws, played by Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, have their own beliefs challenged when the young couple arrives.
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This film was a major cultural breakthrough when it came out in 1967. Remember, interracial marriage was still illegal in 17 states when the film came out. Not only did it challenge the beliefs of many Americans at the time, but it was a major commercial success as well.
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