A Delicate Balance (film)

A Delicate Balance
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTony Richardson
Written byEdward Albee
Produced byEly Landau
StarringKatharine Hepburn
Paul Scofield
Lee Remick
Kate Reid
Joseph Cotten
Betsy Blair
CinematographyDavid Watkin
Edited byJohn Victor Smith
Distributed byAmerican Film Theatre
Release date
  • November 12, 1973 (1973-11-12)
Running time
133 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Canada
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Delicate Balance is a 1973 American-Canadian-British drama film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Joseph Cotten, and Betsy Blair. The screenplay by Edward Albee is based on his 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

The film was the second in a series produced by Ely Landau for his American Film Theatre,[1] a subscription-based program of screen adaptations of notable stage plays shown in five hundred theaters in four hundred cities.


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