Family Plot (1976)

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 Hitchcoc...
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k 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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Nep-medium Blanche wordt door een rijke, oude dame ingehuurd om haar ter adoptie afgestane neefje te vinden. De dame heeft gewetenswroeging gekregen en wil het verdwenen familielid opnemen in haar testament. Blanche wordt bijgestaan door haar vriendje en taxichauffeur George die in zijn vrije tijd detective speelt. Ondertussen ontvoert een ander stel met succes rijke en bekende mensen, die in ruil voor bijzondere juwelen hun vrijheid terugkrijgen. Het duurt niet lang tot de paden en de verhalen van beide koppels elkaar kruisen. Hitchcock's laatste film.

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Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the whereabouts of her nephew, who'd been given up for adoption years earlier and who is now heir to a fortune. Blanche's cohort is "investigator" Lumley (Bruce Dern), who is fully prepared to milk the last dollar out of Julia before locating the long-lost nephew. Meanwhile, we are introduced to elegant kidnappers Adamson and Fran...
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(William Devane and Karen Black). The fates of the two couples are inextricably intertwined by the search for the missing heir.
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Blanche, a phony psychic, is hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird to trace the whereabouts of her nephew, who'd been given up for adoption years earlier and is now heir to a fortune.

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