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Actor: Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Edith Atwater, Nicholas Colasanto, William DevaneBrand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
Cinematographer: Leonard J. South
Composer: John Williams
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Family Plot
Movie Review: A decent Hitchcock
Summary: 3 Stars
The last ever Hitchcock film is a good movie, but lacks the cutting edge that his best movies always have. Contrary to some reviews I have read I thought the cast were fine and William Devane, Karen Black and Bruce Dern have all done many other interesting films. No doubt that Al Pacino would have been better though!
The main problem with the film is that is never really decides what it wants to be. There's some light black comedy and a bit of suspense but nothing really ever grabs you like his best films. The screenplay is by Ernest Lehman who wrote North By Northwest and its perhaps no coincidence that we get a scene from that great film recreated here (and played for laughs) when a car goes out of control going down a mountain road.
Look out for Hitchcocks very brief cameo appearance its one of his best.
So its no masterpiece, but entertaining enough, and its still Hitchcock. So at the right price buy it!
Summary of Family Plot
Fake medium Madam Blanche (Barbara Harris) and her taxi driver boyfriend George (Bruce Dern) make a living by scaming people with her phoney powers. They are hired by an aging widow Julia Rainbird to find her nephew who was given away for adoption many years earlier following a family scandal. Meanwhile an extremely clever couple diamond merchant Arthur Adamson (William Devine) and his attractive girlfriend Fran (Karen Black) are behind a series of kidnappings of various VIPs in the San Francisco area. The two couples paths soon cross and chaos results in Hitchcock's last film.System Requirements:Bonus Features: Plotting Family Plot Storyboards: The Chase Scene Production Photographs Theatrical Trailer Production Notes Running Time: 120 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY Rating:?PG UPC:?025192830525 Manufacturer No:?28305Alfred Hitchcock's final film is understated comic fun that mixes suspense with deft humor, thanks to a solid cast. The plot centers on the kidnapping of an heir and a diamond theft by a pair of bad guys led by Karen Black and William Devane. The cops seem befuddled, but that doesn't stop a questionable psychic (Barbara Harris) and her not overly bright boyfriend (Bruce Dern, in a rare good-guy role) from picking up the trail and actually solving the crime. Did she do it with actual psychic powers? That's part of the fun of Harris's enjoyably ditsy performance. --Marshall Fine
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