Family Plot is a 1976 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, his final completed film. It stars Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, William Devane and Karen Black. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.
The story involves a fake psychic, Blanche Tyler (Harris), and her con artist taxi driver boyfriend, George Lumley (Dern), who attempt to locate the nephew of a wealthy and guiltridden old woman, ...
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Family Plot is a 1976 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, his final completed film. It stars Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, William Devane and Karen Black. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.
The story involves a fake psychic, Blanche Tyler (Harris), and her con artist taxi driver boyfriend, George Lumley (Dern), who attempt to locate the nephew of a wealthy and guiltridden old woman, Julia Rainbird (Nesbitt). Julia, one of Blanche's clients, was responsible for her now-deceased sister giving up a boy for adoption years earlier and now wants to make him her heir. She will pay $10,000 if he is found.
However, the nephew and prospective heir is now a successful jeweler in San Francisco known as Arthur Adamson (Devane), who has a secret and lurid past, having apparently murdered his adoptive parents and faked his own death. With his girlfriend Fran (Black), he has successfully kidnapped an assortment of millionaires and...
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