The Man Who Came to Dinner

Whiteside certainly is a witty character, but he is also completely obnoxious and I was fairly annoyed by the end, his constant one-liner sarcasm was at no point funny and if that doesn't get you, the stale setting and lackluster story, and acting wont make you appreciate this.

Viewed December 8, 2019.

A satisfying stage comedy transferred ably to the screen.

Is it normal for Jimmy Durante to be my favorite actor

Anyone else playing the character Banjo except Jimmy Durante, and I'd score this 100. I've never liked him and could never understand his appeal to audiences.

Delightfully malicious caricature of Alexander Woolcott which, though virtually confined to one set, moves so fast that one barely notices the lack of cinematic variety, and certainly provides more than a laugh a minute, especially for those old enough to understand all the references.

I'm gonna dissent here and say Woolley was more tedious than Keitel's nude church-howling in "BL". Way better obnoxious asshats: the "thief" in "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover", and Mr. Fishpaw in "Polyester".

Jimmy Durante turns this one upside down

There's a passing resemblance to Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning, another film where an abrasive, self-centered houseguest upheaves the lives of those around him. Monty Woolley even looks like Michel Simon. In my opinion, Sheridan Whiteside trumps Boudu as a far more entertaining character. The wit is dynamite, the performances are mostly engaging, and the pace is spot-on. A mighty enjoyable flick, though perhaps it could have used a dash of Renoir's cynicism.

the first hour, a 2 star journey, an insufferable movie about a bunch of people trapped into suffering an insufferable man. the second hour is a 4 star movie as davis and sheridan go toe to toe and it becomes a series of power plays and tricks, and then jimmy durante STEALS the entire movie for 5 minutes.

How wonderfully rude!

The Man Who Came to Dinner is an account of one of surely countless similar episodes in the life of the biggest douchebag in the history of cinema, actually probably in the history of all vaginal cleaning agents. Whatever they were using before douche, he still outranks it.