Nearly twenty five years had passed since Sidney Poitier shocked Katharine Hepburn by coming home for dinner by the time Spike Lee released Jungle Fever and another fifteen and change has gone by since then. At this point Something New should be the farthest thing from new and to prove our point, we chose twenty of our favorite films (in no particular order) that featured mixed race pairings front and center.
Now let’s begin.
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
1967 Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton
A View To Kill
1985 Grace Jones & Roger Moore
The Bodyguard
1992 Kevin Costner & Whitney Houston
Something New
2006 Simon Baker & Sanaa Lathan
Jungle Fever
1991 Wesley Snipes & Annabella Sciorra
Monster’s Ball
2001 Billy Bob Thornton & Halle Berry
Hitch
2005 Will Smith & Eva Mendes
A Bronx Tale
1993 Taral Hicks & Lillo Brancato Jr.
Lakeview Terrace
2008 Patrick Wilson & Kerry Washington
Angel Heart
1987 Lisa Bonet & Mickey Rourke
Save The Last Dance
2001 Julia Stiles & Sean Patrick Thomas
Mississippi Masala
1991 Denzel Washington & Sarita Choudhury
Guess Who
2005 Ashton Kusher & Zoe Saldana
Zebrahead
1992 N’Bushe Wright & Michael Rapapaport
Our Family Wedding
2010 America Ferrera & Lance Gross
White Men Can’t Jump
1992 Woody Harrelson & Rosie Perez
The Princess And The Frog
2009 Anika Noni Rose & Bruno Campos
Alfie
2004 Jude Law & Nia Long
O
2001 Julia “Jungle Fever” Stiles & Mekhi Phifer
Avatar
2009 Zoe Saldana & Sam Worthington
