Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Description

Joanna "Joey" Drayton is a young white American woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice, an African American man she met while on a holiday in Hawaii. Prentice plans to fly to New York later that night then on to an assignment in Switzerland. Joanna plans to join him there soon to be married even though she has only known him for a very short period of time. The plot is centered on Joanna's return to her liberal upper class American home in San Francisco, bringing her new fiance to dinner to meet her parents, and the reaction of family and friends.