Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ( Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner )

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Blu-Ray) (*)

$30.99

Alternate Title: Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
David Donatello Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

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French ( Mono )
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Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Stanley Kramer

Written By:
William Rose

Actors:
Spencer Tracy ..... Matt Drayton
Sidney Poitier ..... John Prentice
Katharine Hepburn ..... Christina Drayton
Katharine Houghton ..... Joey Drayton
Cecil Kellaway ..... Monsignor Ryan
Beah Richards ..... Mrs. Prentice
Roy Glenn ..... Mr. Prenti
Isabel Sanford ..... Tillie
Virginia Christine ..... Hilary St. George
Alexandra Hay ..... Carhop
Barbara Randolph ..... Dorothy
D'Urville Martin ..... Frankie
Tom Heaton ..... Peter
Grace Gaynor ..... Judith
Skip Martin ..... Delivery Boy

Synopsis:

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 . . .

The movie concerns Joanna Drayton, a young white American woman (Houghton) and a man with whom she's had a whirlwind romance, Dr. Prentice (Poitier), an African American she met while on a holiday in Hawaii. As the movie opens, they're at the San Francisco Airport preparing to tell her parents, Matthew (Tracy) and Christine (Hepburn) Dayton their plans: to marry and live in Switzerland. Kramer and Rose intentionally debunked ethnic stereotypes; the young doctor was purposely created idealistically perfect so that the only possible objection to his marrying Joanna would be his race, or the fact she only met him nine days earlier. He has graduated from a top school, begun innovative medical initiatives in Africa, refused to have premarital sex with his fiancée despite her request, and leaves money on his future father-in-law's desk in payment for a long distance phone call he has made. The plot is centered on Joanna's return to her liberal upper class home overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Her mother, while surprised, is supportive from the beginning, but her father isn't buying the marriage. He is joined in his concerns by the family retainer Tillie (Sanford) and the young Doctor's father (Glenn), a retired postal worker who flies up to Los Angeles for dinner.The action builds to a stirring speech by the father (the last by Tracy on film) in which Matthew Drayton comes to grips with the differences between his daughter and his future son-in-law and makes clear that what others think of the marriage of Joanna and Prentice means nothing, all that matters is that the two young people love each other and that the real crime would be if they allowed outside criticism to deny them their mutual love. His words move his wife to tears, and after allowing the weight of his words to sink in, Matthew breaks the ice by demanding to know when dinner will be served.

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

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 03 September, 2013.

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