Family Plot

Raskolnikov

November 2, 2001

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With a nod back to the earlier Hitchcock discussion, I finally saw Family Plot last night.

I really liked it, and am surprised it doesn't have a better reputation. It does lack the glamour-puss leads that are a Hitchcock staple (Bruce Dern is about as uncharismatic a hero as I have ever seen), but it has a fun, twisty, story that has a lot in common with many very recent films (I somehow suspect Guy Ritchie is a fan), and the cast is uniformly very good. I can't think of anything I didn't like about it, except that I had to look at Bruce Dern for two hours, instead of Grace Kelly.