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Guess Who

Ashton Kutcher, Bernie Mac, Zoe Saldana, Judith Scott, Jill Wagner

Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan
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March 24, 2005

Don't get too heated about remaking 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with a race switch. Except for the sparks between Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in their final screen teaming, the movie was a crock, even with the young Sidney Poitier as their daughter's beau. The new Guess is a crock, too, but Bernie Mac is fun as the huff daddy whose daughter (Zoe Saldana) hooks up with a white boy (Ashton Kutcher). And his easy rapport with a dialed-down Kutcher works against the cliched script and the hard-sell direction. Guess what? It's almost bearable.

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