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Keeping it Light
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Family Plot is a 1976 American black comedy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his final directing role. It was based on Victor Canning's 1972 novel The Rainbird Pattern, which Ernest Lehman adapted for the screen. The film stars Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris and William Devane; it was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.

The story involves two couples: one a "fake" psychic and her cab-driving boyfriend, the other a pair of professional thieves and kidnappers. Their lives come into conflict because of a search for a missing heir. The film's title is a pun: "family plot" can refer to an area in a cemetery that has been bought by one family for the burial of its various relatives; in this case it also means a dramatic plot line involving various family members.


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Not at all what I was expecting out of Alfred Hitchcock's final film. It plays much more like a Coen Brother dark comedy rather than a suspenseful thriller. A fake psychic, a cab driver (who insists he's an actor) track down the heir to a vast fortune who mysteriously disappeared ... and became a criminal mastermind in themselves. The overly horny couple end up way out of their element when the real criminals realize they are being followed and assume that the spirit-reader is actually onto their kidnapping scheme. It takes a bit for all the pieces to come together, but once it does the movie is really funny and ... suspenfully thrilling as well! So Hitchcock did make it his own after all as well as paving the way for the next generation. Good job, bro.

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