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Family Plot is a 1976 American crime, mystery, comedy, and thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, based on a work by Victor Canning. The cast includes Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, and William Devane. John Williams composed the score, while Edith Head served as costume designer and Henry Bumstead as production designer. J. Terry Williams edited the film, which was filmed in San Francisco.
Produced by Universal Pictures and Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, the film has a runtime of 120 minutes and a budget of 4,500,000. It was released in the United States on April 9, 1976, with other release dates including March 21, May 28, and July 8, 1976. The film earned 13,200,000 in revenue. Its tagline is "There's no body in the family plot."
The film received a Metascore of 79 and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 90%. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.8 and a TMDb vote average of 6.772. Family Plot was rated PG and received the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films award. It has 2 wins and 6 nominations total.
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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
via OMDb · IMDb
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
via Wikipedia infobox