Family Plot

A fake psychic, Blanche Tyler (Barbara Harris), and her boyfriend, George Lumley (Bruce Dern), attempt to locate the nephew of a wealthy and guilt-ridden elderly woman, Julia Rainbird, who wants to make him her heir. Meanwhile, it is revealed to the viewers that Shoebridge murdered his adoptive parents, faked his own death and is now a successful jeweler in San Francisco known as Arthur Adamson. He and his live-in girlfriend, Fran, kidnap millionaires and dignitaries, returning them in exchange for ransoms in the form of valuable gemstones.