Directed by Larry Peerce (The Incident, Goodbye Columbus) at the height of the Civil Rights movement, the pioneering, low-budget Cannes-winning and Oscar-nominated drama One Potato, Two Potato will be available to own on bluray for the first time, DVD and Digital from October 13th courtesy of Studiocanal.
Owing to its controversial subject matter, Peerce's directorial debut initially struggled to find distribution upon completion but was picked up only once Barbara Barrie (Breaking Away) won the Best Actress Award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. Bernie Hamilton (The Young One) and Richard Mulligan (Little Big Man) also star in this landmark drama which preceded the more famous Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) by three years. One Potato, Two Potato went on to receive an Oscar-nomination for Best Original Screenplay for writers Raphael Hayes and Orville H. Hampton.
A young, white, divorced single mother Julie (Barrie) does her best to create the best possible environment for her young daughter. But when Julie falls in love with Frank (Hamilton), a Black man who works at the same factory, societal pressures surrounding interracial marriage gets in the way of their desire to create a family together. Julie's ex-husband Joe (Mulligan) goes as far as suing for custody of their child based on his prejudices with devastating consequence, and Julie and Frank's steady romance, and newly founded bliss slowly quickly deteriorates due to institutional and cultural racism.
We've got two blurays to give away to lucky UK readers.
To enter the draw, simply email your full name and postal address to giveaways@themoviewaffler.com with 'Potato' in the subject line, no later than October 12th, 2025. Offer is open to UK residents only.
