PG | 1h 48min | Drama, Comedy | 1967
Stanley Kramer’s “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner” is all of 108 minutes, but packed with truth and insight that echoes beyond its genre, its generation, and its geography.
Young Joanna or Joey (Katharine Houghton) tells her parents, Christina (Katharine Hepburn) and Matt (Spencer Tracy), of her plans to marry a doctor, John (Sidney Poitier), who’s distinguished enough to be a senior official in an international organization.
Joanna Drayton (Kathryn Houghton) and John Prentice Jr. (Sidney Poitier) have a difficult time telling their families they want to marry, in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” (MovieStillsDB)
She’d met him while vacationing in Hawaii and, after a brief courtship, brings him home to her parents in San Francisco. She then invites his parents, Mary (Beah Richards) and Prentice Sr. (Roy E Glenn Sr.), to dinner and, when family friend Monsignor Mike (Cecil Kellaway) drops by, she invites him, too….