Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Sideny Poiter stars in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" as an accomplished Doctor who just met the love of his life. The problem he encounters is that he doesn't think meeting his girlfriend's parents is going to end well.

Movie poster 

I didn't talk about the race of either character in my quick synopsis above because if you just read that it wouldn't sound like too good of a movie. The fact that race is so deeply ingrained as a difference-maker in people's eyes is sad.  

On the other hand, I didn't enjoy this movie directed by Stanley Kramer because I thought it was slow and had a boring plot. I guess it was interesting and weird for viewers at the time to see a scenario like this on the big screen but I thought it was ehh.

I enjoy Sidney Poiter and thought he did a very good job as well as his beautiful co-star Katharine Houghton who played his girlfriend. Also, the whole idea of how they wanted to get married while only knowing each other for 4 months or so was kind of dumb. 

Dr. John Prentice and Joanna Dayton

The message displayed is a good one, but it's still an important topic today. Interracial marriage was different than other parts of integration because it dealt with the powers of love. Therefore, it was an important decision for the parents to make.

One line that struck me was when Joanna's father was in the car with her mom and he says to himself "I never thought that this would happen." That stuck out to me because it made me aware that he was never prepared to make this conclusion.