Mixed Company

Mixed Company

Directed by Melville Shavelson
Produced by Melville Shavelson
Written by Melville Shavelson
Mort Lachman
Starring Barbara Harris
Joseph Bologna
Tom Bosley
Lisa Gerritsen
Dorothy Shay
Ruth McDevitt
Arianne Heller
Haywood Nelson
Eric Olson
Jina Tan
Music by Fred Karlin
Cinematography Stan Lazan
Edited by Walter Thompson
Ralph James Hall
Production
company
Llenroc Productions
Distributed by United Artists
Release dates
  • October 18, 1974 (1974-10-18) (U.S.)
Running time
 109 minutes
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, Tom Bosley, Lisa Gerritsen, Dorothy Shay, Ruth McDevitt 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 Rogers. The new extended family must now learn to live together.

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