The Man Who Came to Dinner

TV Movie
2000
2h 56m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

360

YOUR RATING

Comedy Drama

Cantankerous theatre critic Sheridan Whiteside falls on an icy sidewalk, breaks his hip, and is temporarily stranded at the Ohio home of Richard Stanley and his family. While he's there, Whi... Read allCantankerous theatre critic Sheridan Whiteside falls on an icy sidewalk, breaks his hip, and is temporarily stranded at the Ohio home of Richard Stanley and his family. While he's there, Whiteside turns life upside-down for everyone.Cantankerous theatre critic Sheridan Whiteside falls on an icy sidewalk, breaks his hip, and is temporarily stranded at the Ohio home of Richard Stanley and his family. While he's there, Whiteside turns life upside-down for everyone.

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

360

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
The original Broadway production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner" by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman opened at the Music Box Theater on October 16, 1939 and ran for 739 performances.

However, given Whiteside's conversation with Walt Disney, it is clear this is not the script from opening night as Giai Điệu Kỳ Diệu (1940), the project for which Disney provides consolation, did not premiere until one year after the play opened.

Quotes
Sheridan Whiteside: I may vomit.

Connections
Referenced in My Boys: Free Agent (2006)

Soundtracks
What Am I To Do
(uncredited)
Written by Cole Porter
Performed by Byron Jennings

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Review

Featured review

9/10

Best of the best

As someone who goes out of his way to see performances of "The Man Who Came to Dinner"--one of the greatest comic concoctions of the 20th century--I thought this was the best media presentation of the play to date, much better than the 1940 film version. My only quibble concerns the decision to pattern Lewis Stadlen's Banjo after Jimmy Durante's version in the film, rather than Harpo Marx (upon whom the character was originally modelled), but that's a matter of personal taste. (And to be fair, Stadlen does just fine, perhaps even out-Duranting Durante.) Conversely, I can't imagine anyone better in the title role than Nathan Lane, and he lives up to my hopes splendidly. (I hope PBS broadcasts him in "The Producers" one of these days!)