BRUCE DERN - Hollywood Icon & Author
With Alfred Hitchcock's

Family Plot

Tuesday, May 29 at 7:15pm

IN PERSON: Bruce Dern

Screening, Discussion, Book Signing,
and Reception with Bruce Dern

$9 Members • $12 Public / Reservation Suggested • No Refunds

Join us for an evening with Hollywood legend Bruce Dern, an icon of American cinema for over 40 years. The program will be highlighted by a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot. When a rich dowager visits a psychic for help in finding her long-lost heir, she sets off more than a search for a missing person. The psychic is a phony, and the lure of dollars sends her and her cabdriver husband (Bruce Dern) in hot pursuit of the lost beneficiary. Their bumbling search, however, threatens to interfere with established criminal interests. Family Plot was Hitchcock’s final film, and also his second-biggest box office success. As in Strangers on a Train, the master filmmaker explores his favorite theme: doubles-whereby one character provides a dark counterpoint to the hero, acting out all their repressed, negative desires.

(USA, 1976, 121 min., color • Director: Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, and Karen Black)

Bruce Dern is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated actor and early member of the Actors Studio. His multi-era career includes memorable roles in genre classics, including They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, Coming Home, The Great Gatsby, The Wild Angels, Silent Running, That Championship Season, and All the Pretty Horses. For many filmgoers, he will always be the guy who killed John Wayne in The Cowboys. He currently stars as Frank Harlow in the hit HBO series Big Love.