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Family Plot
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6.8Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Cast
- Barbara Harris as Blanche Tyler
- Bruce Dern as George Lumley
- Karen Black as Fran
- William Devane as Arthur Adamson
- Ed Lauter as Joseph Maloney
- Cathleen Nesbitt as Julia Rainbird
Themes
- fortune teller
- kidnapping
- detective
- greed
- investigation
- fraud
- fake identity
- murder
- heir
- spiritualist
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Ratings
IMDb
6.8/10
25,814 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
79/100
- Year
- 1976
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- 2 wins & 6 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written by
- Ernest Lehman
- Based on
- The Rainbird Pattern , by Victor Canning
- Produced by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Starring
- Karen Black Bruce Dern Barbara Harris William Devane
- Cinematography
- Leonard J. South
- Edited by
- J. Terry Williams
- Music by
- John Williams
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release date
- April 9, 1976 ( 1976-04-09 )
- Running time
- 120 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $4.5 million
- Box office
- $13 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 123
- FilmAffinity ID
- 265757
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- publication date
- 1976-00-00
- title
- Family Plot
- capital cost
- 4500000
- review score
- 92%
- box office
- 13200000
- Commons category
- Family Plot
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Family Plot is a 1976 American black comedy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his final directorial feature, and starring Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, and William Devane. It was based on Victor Canning's 1972 novel The Rainbird Pattern, which Ernest Lehman adapted for the screen.
The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival but was not entered into the main competition.