Family Plot Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
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Alfred_Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor_Canning's novel -The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest_Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara_Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen_Nesbitt) to trace the whereabouts of her nephew, who'd been given up for adoption years earlier and who is now heir to a fortune. Blanche's cohort is "investigator" Lumley (Bruce_Dern), who is fully prepared to milk the last dollar out of Julia before locating the long-lost nephew. Meanwhile, we are introduced to elegant kidnappers Adamson and Fran (William_Devane and Karen_Black). The fates of the two couples are inextricably intertwined by the search for the missing heir. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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