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Guess who's guaranteed a major disappointment?
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

The woeful "Guess Who" is not a remake of Stanley Kramer's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," which starred Sidney Poitier as the man engaged to Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy's daughter. Nor is it a "re-imagining." Nope. According to producer-star Ashton Kutcher, "Guess Who" is an "annotation" of the 1967 film. A spit-take is more like it. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
Inverting the racial politics of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," this version casts Bernie Mac as the well-to-do patriarch who is surprised — make that, appalled — when his smart, beautiful daughter brings home a white boyfriend.

FILM FACTS ...

Columbia Pictures

Guess Who

Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Starring: Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana
Run time: 97 minutes
Release date: March 25, 2005
Rating: PG for sex-related humor
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On the web
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READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: D
" ... isn't very smart and it isn't very funny. In fact, it isn't much of anything."