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In Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), a white liberal couple (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) must deal with their mixed emotions when their daughter brings home a black fiancée (Sydney Poitier) and announces that they must grant her approval (or not) by the end of that same night. Adding to the confusion is the couple’s disapproving black maid and the fiancée’s parents, who also join the dinner party unexpectedly. Guess Who (2005) has a successful black couple dealing with the same when their daughter brings home a white fiancée...