Guess Who
by Kevin Rodney Sullivan
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Actor: Ashton Kutcher, Bernie Mac, Hal Williams, Judith Scott, Zoe SaldanaDirector: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Brand: MAC,BERNIE
Producer: Betty Thomas
Producer: Erwin Stoff
Producer: J. Roberts
Writer: David Ronn
Writer: Jay Scherick
Writer: Peter Tolan
Writer: William Rose
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
Published: 2005-08-01
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-02
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Guess Who
Movie Review: GUESS WHO? Percy Jones' future son-in-law
Summary: 5 Stars
Some reviewers have said that interracial romance has come a long way since the original film GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? played in theaters four decades ago. For instance,on the CBS sitcom THE JEFFERSONS,Tom Willis,a caucasian and his negro wife Helen Douglas Willis. Bernie Mac is Percy Jones,the role portrayed by Sidney Poitier in the original film. At first Percy is initially shocked but welcomes Simon Green(Ashton Kutcher),a caucasian,to the family with open arms. Simon is engaged to Percy's daughter Teresa(Zoe Saldana). Also Percy and his wife Marilyn are renewing their wedding vows on their 25th anniversary. At a family gathering,Simon is telling skin color jokes and everybody laughs until he tells the final,offensive one. Percy and Simon sleep in the same bed for a few nights. Of course,Percy and Marilyn have a big fight just before the big vow renewal,as do Simon and Teresa. Percy and Simon are Wall Street stocktraders,and Simon ends up quitting. But Percy tells that Simon was terminated("He's broke,unemployed and loves my daughter."). In the final scene,we see DVD menus of the videotaped vow renewal. I thought this film suddenly broke and I had to navigate with my own player! I also thought if this film was anything like the Jeffersons,I'd enjoy it. And it was somewhat,with a once-mention of "honky" by Percy's father. Also,pre-JEFFERSONS,the late Isabel Sanford appeared in the original film. Also get a load of Percy and Simon racing cars. One of Teresa's sisters is named Keshia,probably inspired by the Cosby Show actress Keshia Knight Pulliam. Mac and Kutcher are FOX sitcom veterans,Mac is the star of The Bernie Mac Show and Kutcher, aka Mr. Demi Moore,gained notoriety on The 70's Show. Those who saw this film also saw GWCTD,MEET THE PARENTS,MEET THE FOCKERS,MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING and THE IN-LAWS.
Summary of Guess Who
When the daughter of a wealthy black family and her white boyfriend want to get married they meet with opposition from her overbearing father.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 30-JAN-2007
Media Type: DVD
Taken on its own terms as a big-screen sitcom, Guess Who offers plenty of humor with just enough social commentary to make its point without being preachy. Of course, we've come along way since interracial romance was such a hot-button issue in Stanley Kramer's earnest 1967 drama Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, and nobody's going to mistake Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac (in this updated semi-remake) with the original film's Sidney Poitier and Spencer Tracy. And that's fine, because Guess Who--from the director of Barbershop 2--doesn't pretend to be anything more than a slick, entertaining vehicle for domestic farce with the racial roles reversed. Kutcher's romance with an African-American beauty (Zoë Sandaņa) causes sparks to fly when he's introduced to her father (Bernie Mac). What ensues is basically an interracial buddy comedy that's as uninspired as it is easy to watch, and there's a dinner-table scene that's refreshingly provocative in this movie's otherwise tamely cautious context. We can all be thankful that humanity has matured a little since the racial tensions of the late '60s, but Hollywood's progress (and Kutcher's career) remains subject to debate. --Jeff Shannon
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