Family Plot is a disaster, with a really awful tone -- it's not serious and it's not funny. But it does have one terrific, Hitchcock scene: when Barbara Harris is being abducted in the garage, kicks over a can of paint, and it runs under the garage door and past the feet of the folks looking for her.
I vividly remember being absolutely dumbfounded when I saw Family Plot. Which raised the same question for me as well....how does creativity work? For lack of a better feeling it was almost like a betrayal after seeing his last film. Not all films will be great for sure but holy cow it was down right painful to watch.
Family Plot is a disaster, with a really awful tone -- it's not serious and it's not funny. But it does have one terrific, Hitchcock scene: when Barbara Harris is being abducted in the garage, kicks over a can of paint, and it runs under the garage door and past the feet of the folks looking for her.
I vividly remember being absolutely dumbfounded when I saw Family Plot. Which raised the same question for me as well....how does creativity work? For lack of a better feeling it was almost like a betrayal after seeing his last film. Not all films will be great for sure but holy cow it was down right painful to watch.