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Film Review: Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Over the course of the semester, we watched three films form 1967 featuring the actor, Sydney Poitier. Thoughts about marriage in the world have evolved from the first settlers. Interracial relationship has the movie shows, have experienced intense struggles and obstacles in the story. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner was my favorite movie because it demonstrates that skin color does not define or determine anything in our lives, liberal education and persuasions can be put to test and that sometimes we do not need anyone approves to do things. They say “love conquers all”, but when the couple in love has two different racial backgrounds, that are when the
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