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Guess Who
List Price: $14.94
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$8.49
on 11-28-2008
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Features
Actors: Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana, Judith Scott, Hal Williams
Directors: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Release Date: August 2, 2005
Run Time: 105 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  (130 customer reviews)
Reader Reviews
"Guess Who" is a mere two words of the original title, "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner." Too bad it has an even smaller fraction of the comic value. This awkward racial comedy is watered down and goofed up, and only Bernie Mac's performance gets a chance to shine. Too bad he wasn't opposite the Wilson brothers. The original 1967 race comedy had a white girl bringing her African-American fiancee home. This time there is a reversal: Percy (Bernie Mac) and wife Marilyn (Judith Scott) are sort-of-eagerly awaiting the arrival of their young daughter Teresa (Zoe Saldana), who is supposed to bring her fiancee there. They expected a nice, financially stable, black man. What they get: A goofy, well-to-do white guy, Simon (Ashton Kutcher). Percy isn't exactly pleased with this, especially after some "Meet the Parents" stunts like Simon prancing around in lingerie. He does have to admit that Simon's past career has been "a thing of beauty," but more problems arise when they learn that Simon has actually quit his job recently. I'm not sure why they bill "Guess Who" as a remake. It has almost nothing in common with the original -- even the title feels goofily incomplete. ("Guess Who"? Guess who what?) The hot-button race relations are replaced with oddball slapstick. And Sidney Poitier's elegant performance is replaced by... Ashton Kutcher. I think the problems are obvious. But even taken by itself, "Guess Who" feels like a race-based version of "Meet the Parents," with the awkward young man meeting his future in-laws, except with an even thinner storyline. Kevin Rodney Sullivan simply doesn't seem to have enough funny scenarios to flesh out a simple storyline, so he fills it in with sitcommish antics and awkward interactions. There is one redeeming factor to this movie -- outside the framework of the 1960s, it displays that racism is not restricted to one race. Unfortunately, it gets mired in scenes like Mac and Kutcher sharing a bed in the basement. It could have had a strong message, but it chickens out. The two leads are a study in opposites. Bernie Mac gives a really fun performance as the father-in-law from hell, and he plays the role with such aplomb that he redeems many a flagging scene. Kutcher, on the other hand, hasn't made a single good career decision since signing onto "That 70s Show," and this isn't going to break the trend. In "Guess Who," he is bland. Very bland. Bland bland bland. Forget white -- he's white bread. "Guess Who" won't keep you guessing -- this lame comedy is strictly by the numbers. It has the occasional moments of excellence, but besides Mac's performance, it's a bomb that probably has Poitier rolling his eyes.
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