Family Plot PG
There's no body in the family plot.
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DVD Details
- Plotting Family Plot
- Storyboards for The Chase Scene
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 7, 2006
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane & Karen Black | |
Performer: | Ed Lauter, Warren J. Kemmerling, Marge Redmond, William Prince, Cathleen Nesbitt, Nicholas Colasanto, Edith Atwater, Charles Tyner & Martin West | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Edited by | J. Terry Williams | |
Screenplay by | Ernest Lehman | |
Composition by | John Williams | |
Director of Photography: | Leonard J. South |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Hitchcock has a deviously complicated tale to tell, and he's going to tell it with labyrinthine detail, and he's not going to cheat.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Family Plot is at times a pure mechanical construction, an endless game where the different actions and protagonists intertwine without gaining something. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Inventive, often underrated thriller.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: 3/4 --
It's a movie that's haunted by death, with lengthy sequences played out in cemeteries.
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Slant Magazine
It's not exactly top-tier Hitchcock, but it features enough good stuff to make it at least worth one viewing.
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Combustible Celluloid
A rolling boil of sex and violence beneath the bland surfaces of suburban placidity.
New Yorker
Rating: B+ --
Hitchcock's last (53rd) film is a post-modern, self-reflexive work, which deserves a more serious look and better grade than granted by many critics.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
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.
Product Description:
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.
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- Sales Rank: 36,459
- UPC: 025192830525
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