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Family Plot (1976) - Drunk Monk - 06-10-2018
Another Hitchcock and so 70s. Karen Black, William Devane, and the ever quirky Bruce Dern. Plus Barbara Harris, who is fantastic, but I didn't recognize her from anything else. The rest of the cast are all actors that proliferate film and TV at the time. And the whole vibe, like I said, soooo 70s. Ed Lauter - heck, what 70s show was he not in? It's a goofy caper, lots of Hitchcockian black humor, and some fine suspenseful shots. The graveyard scene where Dern tries to corner Katherine Helmond is just classic Hitchcock. I appreciated the quietness of the film, and the slow pacing. This is not a major work of Hitchcock's, more just him having a bit of fun with a modest film idea.