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The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

The Man Who Came to Dinner poster

The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

Overview

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.


Starring Cast


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional

Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral

Viewer Rating
7.5

Overview

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.


Starring Cast

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Traditional

Primary

The film is a classic screwball comedy that satirizes celebrity culture and social disruption without explicitly promoting a specific political ideology. Its focus is on character-driven humor and the resolution of personal conflicts rather than a political thesis.

This 1941 classic Hollywood film features a primarily traditional cast, reflecting the common casting practices of its era without intentional diversity-driven choices. The narrative, typical of its time and genre, does not engage in critical portrayals of traditional identities or incorporate explicit DEI themes.

Secondary

The film features queer-coded characters, notably Sheridan Whiteside and Beverly Carlton, based on real-life gay figures. While their implied sexual orientation is not explicit due to the Hays Code, they are portrayed as intelligent, witty, and powerful individuals. Their coding is not used for ridicule or degradation, nor is it explicitly affirmed, resulting in a neutral overall impact on LGBTQ+ themes.

The film 'The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1941' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative focuses on a bombastic radio personality's disruption of a small-town family's life, without any elements related to transgender identity.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The 1941 film is a direct adaptation of the 1939 play. All major characters retain the same gender as established in the original source material, with no instances of a character canonically established as one gender being portrayed as a different gender.

The 1941 film is an adaptation of a 1939 play. All major characters, originally conceived as white, were portrayed by white actors in the film, consistent with the source material.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.5

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.5
The Movie Database logo
6.9

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
8.6
Metacritic logo
7.1

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