Guess Whose Coming to Dinner
Movie Review and Analysis of Communication Styles of the Characters
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 Academy Award-winning comedy-drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, and Katharine Houghton.
The main characters: Sidney Poitier - Dr. John Wade Prentice
Katharine Houghton - Joanne ‘Joey’ Drayton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Drayton
Katharine Hepburn - Christina Drayton, wife of Matt Drayton
Spencer Tracy - Matt Drayton
Other Characters include Monsignor Mike Ryan, family friend of Mr. and Mrs. Drayton, their maid Tillie and Mr. and Mrs. Prentice, parents of Dr. John Wade Prentice.
Plot Summary and Overall Non-Verbal Indicators
The movie concerns Joanna Drayton, a young white American woman (Houghton) who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. Prentice (Poitier), an African American she met while on a holiday in Hawaii. The two plan to marry and she will return with him to Switzerland. The plot is centered on Joanna’s return to her liberal upper class American home in San Francisco, bringing her new fiancé to dinner to meet her parents, and the reaction of family and friends.
The movie starts with Dr. Prentice visiting Joey’s home to meet her parents. He is a noble, rich, intelligent, handsome, ethical medical expert who serves on United Nations committees when he's not hurrying off to Africa, Asia, Switzerland and all those other places where his genius is required.
The first scene that brings out the strong non-verbal communication used in the movie is the interaction of Dr. Prentice and Joey with Mrs. Drayton’s secretary, Hillary. One can observe the tense expression on Hillary’s face as well as the disbelief and a little bit of contempt in her eyes on hearing the news of Joanne marrying an African-American man. She rarely blinks her eyes and keeps them firmly fixed on Dr. Prentice throughout the scene not registering more than half of the information given to her
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 Academy Award-winning comedy-drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, and Katharine Houghton.
The main characters: Sidney Poitier - Dr. John Wade Prentice
Katharine Houghton - Joanne ‘Joey’ Drayton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Drayton
Katharine Hepburn - Christina Drayton, wife of Matt Drayton
Spencer Tracy - Matt Drayton
Other Characters include Monsignor Mike Ryan, family friend of Mr. and Mrs. Drayton, their maid Tillie and Mr. and Mrs. Prentice, parents of Dr. John Wade Prentice.
Plot Summary and Overall Non-Verbal Indicators
The movie concerns Joanna Drayton, a young white American woman (Houghton) who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. Prentice (Poitier), an African American she met while on a holiday in Hawaii. The two plan to marry and she will return with him to Switzerland. The plot is centered on Joanna’s return to her liberal upper class American home in San Francisco, bringing her new fiancé to dinner to meet her parents, and the reaction of family and friends.
The movie starts with Dr. Prentice visiting Joey’s home to meet her parents. He is a noble, rich, intelligent, handsome, ethical medical expert who serves on United Nations committees when he's not hurrying off to Africa, Asia, Switzerland and all those other places where his genius is required.
The first scene that brings out the strong non-verbal communication used in the movie is the interaction of Dr. Prentice and Joey with Mrs. Drayton’s secretary, Hillary. One can observe the tense expression on Hillary’s face as well as the disbelief and a little bit of contempt in her eyes on hearing the news of Joanne marrying an African-American man. She rarely blinks her eyes and keeps them firmly fixed on Dr. Prentice throughout the scene not registering more than half of the information given to her