Mixed Company
5.7
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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Cast
13 people
Barbara Harris
Kathy Morrison
Known for
Family Plot
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Joseph Bologna
Pete
Known for
Ice Age: The Meltdown
The Woman in Red
Lisa Gerritsen
Liz
Known for
Airport
Tom Bosley
Al
Known for
Happy Days
The Back-Up Plan
Ruth McDevitt
Miss Bergquist
Known for
The Birds
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Ariane Heller
Mary
Also in
Up the Sandbox
Stephen Honanie
Joe
No other roles listed
Haywood Nelson
Freddie
Known for
Evilspeak
Eric Olson
Rob
Also in
The Swiss Family Robinson
Enemy of the State
Jina Tan
Quan
No other roles listed
Dorothy Shay
Marge
Also in
Comin' Round the Mountain
The World's Greatest Athlete
Calvin Brown
Santa Claus
Known for
Little Manhattan
Melville Shavelson Director · Mort Lachman Screenplay Fred Karlin Composer
United States release October 18, 1974 · Produced in United States · Production United Artists Pictures
Production
Llenroc Productions
Production
United Artists Pictures
Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 18, 1974
Theatrical
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