Family Plot

Family Plot is a 1976 comedy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film was Hitchcock's last completed work. It stars Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, William Devane, and Karen Black.

Family Plot centers around a fake psychic named Blanche Tyler, played by Barbara Harris, and her scheming cab driver boyfriend George Lumley, played by Bruce Dern. The duo are hired to find the nephew of an elderly lady named Julia Rainbird, who wishes to make him her sole heir. However, the prospective-heir, who has changed his name to Arthur Adamson, has a sordid history of his own, and he assumes he is being hunted down for his past crimes.

"Hitchcock has a deviously complicated tale to tell, and he's going to tell it with labyrinthine detail, and he's not going to cheat." — Roger Ebert http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19760412/REVIEWS/604120301/1023

"... full of allusions to past Hitchcock. A car is parked on Bates Avenue; a gas station man tells a cab driver it is dangerous to light a match; the kidnapers tell each other how danger makes them tingle; and the female kidnaper used a blonde wig." —Tony Macklin http://tonymacklin.net/content.php?cID=222

• Barbara Harris as Blanche Tyler

• Bruce Dern as George Lumley

• William Devane as Arthur Adamson

• Karen Black as Fran

• Ed Lauter as Maloney

• Cathleen Nesbitt as Julia Rainbird

• Katherine Helmond as Mrs. Maloney