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Fake medium Madam Blanche and her taxi driver actor boyfriend George make a living by scamming people with her phony powers. They are hired by an aging widow, Julia Rainbird, to find her nephew who was given away for adoption many years earlier to avoid a family scandal.
Apr 9, 1976 · Family Plot: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane. A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1976-04-09
Family Plot is a 1976 American black comedy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his final directing role. It was based on Victor Canning's 1972 novel The Rainbird Pattern, which Ernest Lehman adapted for the screen.
A medium, the slightly spaced-out Madame Blanche, is holding a seance with an eccentric old lady. They're in the old lady's parlor, surrounded by antiques and heirlooms and an abundance of deep shadows, and the old lady is involved in this incredibly complicated tale about events of years ago.
Feb 14, 2019 · Alfred Hitchcock’s final film, Family Plot (1976), isn’t a direct adaptation of the fairy tale, but it does take elements of that story and twists them into a macabre Hitchcock thriller. Based on the novel The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning, Family Plot stars the late Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane, Cathleen ...
- Manish Mathur
Family Plot (1976) Hitchcock coasts along in this tongue-in-cheek thriller. Harris is phony psychic who gets involved in a murder plot hatched by sinister Devane. Mildly entertaining but never credible. Ernest Lehman scripted Hitch's 54th and final film.
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Family Plot is a 1976 American dark comedy/thriller film that was the final film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film was based on Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern, which Ernest Lehman adapted for the screen. The film stars Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris and William Devane.
