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Mixed Company is a american film of genre Drama directed by Melville Shavelson released in USA on 18 october 1974 with Barbara Harris
Mixed Company (1974)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 18 october 1974
Length 1h49
Directed by Melville Shavelson
OriginUSA
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Sports films, Basketball films
Rating57%
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 and Haywood Nelson.
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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.Actors
Barbara Harris
(Kathy Morrison)
Joseph Bologna
(Pete)
Tom Bosley
(Al)
Ruth McDevitt
(Miss Bergquist)
Haywood Nelson
(Freddie)
Lisa Gerritsen
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