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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.
Released: 1976-04-09120 minDir: Alfred HitchcockComedy, Crime, Thriller, MysteryBudget: $4.5MBox office: $13.2M
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
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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.
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1970s comedy mystery films1970s comedy thriller films1970s mystery thriller films1970s psychological thriller films1976 American films1976 black comedy films1976 English-language films1976 filmsAmerican black comedy filmsAmerican comedy mystery filmsAmerican comedy thriller filmsAmerican detective films