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Mixed Company

Mixed Company

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 18, 1974

Runtime

1h 49m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Family

User Score

60%

Original Title

Mixed Company

Production Companies

Llenroc Productions

Director

Melville Shavelson

Description

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.