Alfred Hitchcock's final film Family Plot is understated comic fun that mixes suspense with deft humour, thanks to a solid cast. The plot centres on the kidnapping of an heir and a diamond theft by a pair of bad guys led by Karen Black and William Devane. The cops seem befuddled, but that doesn't stop a questionable psychic (Barbara Harris) and her not overly bright boyfriend (Bruce Dern, in a rare good-guy role) from picking up the trail and actually solving the crime. Did she do it with actual psychic powers? That's part of the fun of Harris's enjoyably ditsy performance.... --Marshall Fine [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Alfred Hitchcock's diabolically funny and exciting movie about a search for a missing heir, proved to be his final film. Starring Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, Wiliiam Devane, and Karen Black, Family Plot is the story of a cabbie and a psychic who team up to find a dead man who's not really dead, in exchange for a $10,000 reward. In the process, their lives become intertwined with a larcenous jewel merchant and his beautiful "Woman in Black". Needless to say, there are kidnappings, murder attempts, laughs, and plenty of Hitchcock's famous twists before the "Family Plot" is finally revealed. Actors Bruce Dern, Karen Black, William Devane, Barbara Harris, Ed Lauter, Cathleen Nesbitt, Katherine Helmond, Warren J. Kemmerling, Edith Atwater, William Prince, Nicholas Colasanto, Marge Redmond, John Lehne, Charles Tyner & Alfred Hitchcock Director Alfred Hitchcock Certificate PG Year 1976 Screen Widescreen 16:9 Anamorphic Languages English - Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono Additional Languages German Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; English ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; German ; Norwegian ; Swedish Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour and 45 minutes (approx)
Alfred Hitchcock's 54th and final film. Fake medium Blanche (Barbara Harris) and her boyfriend Lumley (Bruce Dern) are attempting to scam the elderly Miss Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) by discovering the long-lost heir to her family fortune. Meanwhile, sinister jeweller Arthur Adamson (William Devane) plots a kidnapping scheme with his girlfriend, Fran (Karen Black). Although no link is immediately discernible between the activities of the two couples, their paths eventually cross in the most unexpected of ways.
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