Mixed Company
| Mixed Company | |
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| Directed by | Melville Shavelson |
| Produced by |
Melville Shavelson Llenroc Productions (company) |
| Written by |
Mort Lachman Melville Shavelson |
| Starring |
Barbara Harris Joseph Bologna |
| Music by | Fred Karlin |
| Cinematography | Stan Lazan |
| Editing by |
Ralph James Hall Walter Thompson |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release dates | October 18, 1974 (USA) |
| Running time | 109 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Mixed Company is a 1974 comedy-drama film directed by Melville Shavelson and written by Shavelson and Mort Lachman. It stars Barbara Harris, Joseph Bologna, and Haywood Nelson.
Plot summary
Kathy Morrison (Harris), mother of three, who helps run a "color-blind" adoption program, wants to have another biological child. Her husband, Pete (Bologna), the head coach of the Phoenix Suns, finds out he can't produce another child. Kathy thinks about adopting a boy, Frederic "Freddie" Wilcox, and Pete does not want to adopt a boy who happens to be black. When he relents, Freddie's arrival causes an upheaval in the Morrison's neighborhood, their school, and family. Kathy's answer is to adopt another child, in this case two, a war-traumatized half-Vietnamese girl, Quan Tran, and a Hopi boy, Joe. The new extended family must now learn to live together.
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