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In the Heat of the Night vs. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

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Two fantastic Best Picture nominees from 1967 and two of Sidney Poitier's greatest performances. Both deal with racial tension rather gracefully (especially for the time), but vastly different ways (dramatic vs. comedic). I think it could make for a good discussion and a brutal choice at the polls.

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Holy fucking shit I love both of these movies. I always worry that Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is too on-the-nose for a lot of people, but it works for me, deeply, every time. It's a lot of dramatic movie speeches, but they're several of my favorite movie speeches of all time (I think I love Poitier setting his dad straight even more then Spencer Tracey's final speech)

 

This is a 10/10 Sophie's Choice for me. Both are so, so good. Fantastic pairing Robert, but please don't make me choose.

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I watched In the Heat of the Night for the first time a few weeks ago... It totally deserves to be in The Canon.

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