Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning play, A Delicate Balance, was made into a movie in 1973 starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Joseph Cotten, and Betsy Blair. Part of the American Film Theater series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau, A Delicate Balance was intended to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. The film depicts Hepburn and Scofield as an old married couple who would prefer not to be bothered with visitors. Of course, they find themselves repeatedly confronted with unexpected guests, and each time their "delicate balance" is threatens to unravel.