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Mood:
- SuspensefulCleverStylizedWittyTense
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Plot:
- PsychologicalCons and ScamsDishonestyMind and SoulAmateur DetectiveMysterious CharacterInvestigationVoyeurism
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Genres:
- ThrillerFilm NoirCrimeMystery
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century70s
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Place:
- San FranciscoUSA
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Style:
- Talky
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Flag:
- Mild Violent Content
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Family Plot, 1976
English
USA
Profile of Family Plot
The mood of Family Plot is suspenseful, clever, and tense. The plot centers around cons and scams, psychological motives, and dishonesty. It is a thriller, crime, and mystery movie. Stylistically, Family Plot is a film noir and is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is San Francisco. Family Plot happens in the 20th century. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed. Note that Family Plot includes mild violent content.
Summary of Family 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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 9 April 1976 |
| Runtime: | 121 min |
Cast and Crew
as George Lumely
as Blanche Tyler
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- 10.January.2011
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- by: Netflowers
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- 21.March.2009
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- by: Carlos Mal
- Carlos Mal rated this movie6/10Okay
