Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

• Director: Stanley Kramer
• Genre:Drama / Romance
• Runtime:104 minutes

Cast

Spencer Tracy : Matt Drayton

Sidney Poitier : Dr. John Wade Prentice

Katharine Hepburn: Christina Drayton
Katharine Houghton: Joey Drayton
Cecil Kellaway : Monsignor Ryan

Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he’s highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he’s impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he’s black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl’s parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor’s parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . Read more