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Purchase Family Plot on digital and stream instantly or download offline. A wealthy old woman hires a con man (Bruce Dern) and a phony psychic (Barbara Harris) to find her long-lost nephew. The results are diabolically funny as this suspense-comedy combines mystery and mayhem in nonstop excitement from beginning to end. Co-starring Karen Black and William Devane.
Family Plot is a 1976 Black Comedy Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, and William Devane. The score was composed by the legendary John Williams, who had recently joined the A-list of soundtrack composers with his score for Jaws. The film starts with a Spooky Séance contacted by Blanche ...
Apr 25, 2011 · Family Plot, Hitchcock’s fifty-third–and last feature (he died in 1980)–is unfortunately much misunderstood and still underappreciated.. Grade: B (*** out of *****) A film of modest goals, Family Plot admittedly lacks the dramatic urgency and striking visual style of Hitchcock’s previous films.
bkoganbing 8 January 2007. Alfred Hitchcock's final film Family Plot is a story of two male and female criminal partnerships. The first pair is Bruce Dern and Barbara Harris who are a pair of small time grifters and we meet them in the process of fleecing a rich old spinster Cathleen Nesbitt with a phony psychic act.
Family Plot is a confection: a sugared almond, from the heart whose kernel the tiny capsule of traditional poison is unaccountably missing. Billed as diabolical, the film is in fact benign to the ...
The film is just perverse enough to cause an eyebrow raise. But, not enough to get grandpa’s Viagra prescription reduced. The movie dialogues best in Hitchcock’s filmography with “The Trouble with Henry.”. Where “Henry” was quaint and comfortably claustrophobic in its rural idyll, “Plot” is aggressively odd in the hijinks that ...
It looks like West Coast California, but the characters drive comfortably to 'New York' and back. The practical locations are of course around San Francisco and Los Angeles. Family Plot location: Blanche's modest home: Lexington Avenue, Silverlake, Los Angeles. Blanche’s modest little home is 4254 Lexington Avenue, east of Hollywood toward ...
