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Unspooled

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy invite themselves over to 1967's Sidney Poitier "meet the parents" dramedy Guess Who's Coming To Dinner! They praise the movie's light touch with then-controversial social issues like interracial marriage, compare the film to early mainstream gay comedies like The Birdcage, and listen to a posthumous letter star Katharine Hepburn wrote to Spencer Tracy. Plus: Every sitcom with an episode title inspired by this film. This is the fifth episode in our Kinspooled series on “effed up families”; next week’s film is The Farewell! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0

The year is 1967, and you might want to sit down before you fall down.

0:06.0

A movie? Guess who's coming to dinner?

0:09.0

Hey everybody, welcome to Unspooled! I am Paul Sheer. I am Amy Nicholson.

0:34.0

And this is the podcast where we are endeavoring to find the hundred best movies of all time.

0:39.0

We've already gone through the A.F.I.List. We are now on our own journey.

0:43.0

Each couple of weeks picking a mini-series where we explore a genre not fully, but just a little bit.

0:48.0

And right now we're in the middle of fucked up families coming off of our West Anderson episode last week.

0:54.0

And it's really interesting Amy because I've seen a couple of articles recently covering movies that we've been talking about here on the show.

1:02.0

For example, I saw an article all about how the thing is the best horror movie of all time.

1:09.0

All time. Bold statement. Bold statement. But I love that our listeners were on the ball.

1:16.0

I also saw a list of the best Cohen brothers films. And you know we're raising Arizona fit on that list.

1:23.0

Well, if it's on in the top three then I will burn that list. I will set it on fire.

1:28.0

Nine. Nine. Nine. Nine. Yeah, that felt really, really bizarre to me.

1:37.0

Because I kept on going, well, it's definitely in the top three. No. Nine.

1:41.0

I know. They just say ladies' killers fans. Like what's going on with that?

1:44.0

Ladies' killers was the worst, which is the easy one to call the worst.

1:49.0

And then I was looking a little bit more about West Anderson. And there's a lot of...

1:54.0

I read a lot of interesting articles about Moonrise Kingdom. I don't know why people were talking about that.

1:59.0

Or maybe my computer's just listening to me and just tracking what I'm typing in.

2:05.0

Maybe that's what I'm doing. But... That's just me. I'm tracking.

2:08.0

And I'm putting things on your computer when you're not looking.

2:11.0

But I will tell you, I've been listening a lot to the Rushmore soundtrack.

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