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Mixed Company
Film poster by Frank Frazetta
Directed byMelville Shavelson
Written byMelville Shavelson
Mort Lachman
Produced byMelville Shavelson
StarringBarbara Harris
Joseph Bologna
Tom Bosley
Lisa Gerritsen
Dorothy Shay
Ruth McDevitt
Arianne Heller
Haywood Nelson
Eric Olson
Jina Tan
CinematographyStan Lazan
Edited byWalter Thompson
Ralph James Hall
Music byFred Karlin
Production
company
Llenroc Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • October 18, 1974 (1974-10-18) (U.S.)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Mixed Company is a 1974 American 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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Films directed by Melville Shavelson
Phoenix Suns
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