 |
Family Plot (1976) | User Rating
(35 votes) |
|
|
• Quotes (6)
• Trivia (4)
• Plot Description
• Soundtrack
• Wallpapers
• Shooting Locations
• Popularity
DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 6, 2001
• R2: 21 Apr 2003
Budget USD 3,000,000
Running Time
2 hours, 1 minute
Country USA
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
Studio Universal
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Family Plot (1976)
• Missing Heir
• Deceit
• Familiengrab (1976)
|
Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Suspense, Black Comedy, Kidnapping, Deception, Detectives, Psychic, Investigation, Scams And Cons, Thieves
Tagline: There's no body in the family plot
Plot: FAMILY PLOT was Alfred Hitchcock's 54th and final film; he died on April 29, 1980. The film was Hitchcock's second biggest box office success. Once again the master has made a film that involves one of his favorite themes--doubling--with one character providing a dark counterpoint to the hero, acting out all his or her repressed, negative desires, as in SHADOW OF A DOUBT and STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. In this film, the two couples, one criminal but amiable and the other criminal but violent, provide a stark contrast with one another. The parallel couples also provide emotional counterbalance to one another as Hitchcock weaves alternating threads of humor and cruelty to create this layered story. When a rich, guilt-ridden dowager visits a psychic (Barbara Harris) for help in finding her family's long-abandoned heir, she sets off more than a search for a missing person. Unbeknownst to the lady, the psychic is a phony, and the lure of dollars sends her, along with her cabdriver husband (Bruce Dern), in hot pursuit of the lost beneficiary. Their bumbling search, however, threatens to interfere with established criminal interests, and, unknowingly, the couple's doggedness leads them into harm's way. The film was based on THE RAINBIRD PATTERN, a novel by Victor Canning.
More Plot Descriptions
 Discussion forum for this movie
|
| |
|
| Written by |
Victor Canning
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Ernest Lehman
North by Northwest, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Sweet Smell of Success |
|
| Cast |
Karen Black
House of 1000 Corpses, Five Easy Pieces, Nashville |
 | |
 | |
 | |
 | Barbara Harris
Grosse Pointe Blank, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Peggy Sue Got Married | Ed Lauter
Leaving Las Vegas, Seabiscuit, Not Another Teen Movie | | |
[more] |
|
| Music By |
John Williams
Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Schindler's List |
|
|
|
|
Mooviees.com is not the official site for this film.
All editorial views and opinions expressed here are for entertainment purposes only.
| Spielberg, King Go "Under the Dome" [Friday, Nov 20, 2009]"Shield" Scribe Pens Fourth "Underworld" [Friday, Nov 20, 2009]Idris Elba Joins "Thor" Cast [Friday, Nov 20, 2009]Lynch Develops Meditation Founder Doco [Thursday, Nov 19, 2009]Sam Worthington Commits A "Crime" [Thursday, Nov 19, 2009]Eddie Murphy Gets Naughty In "Fluffy" [Thursday, Nov 19, 2009]Adams, Levy Celebrate "Best Days"? [Thursday, Nov 19, 2009]di Bonaventura Producing "Nicholas Flamel" [Thursday, Nov 19, 2009] |
|
|
|
|
Movie Database
In Theaters
