Monday Afternoon @ the Movies: AWPL Classic Monday: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot (1976)

AWPL Classic Monday: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot (1976) The Master of Suspense’s final film – a black comedy, based on Victor Canning’s 1972 novel The Rainbird Pattern, stars Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris and William Devane. 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 a family for the burial of its various relatives – in this case it also means a dramatic plot line involving various family members. Rated PG: 2 hours.