Philadelphia Clan (1979)

Philadelphia Clan: Directed by William Richert. With Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach. The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.

“Nineteen years after JFK was killed (by whom?) and five years after Watergate, this one puts the whole conspiracy theory industry in its place. One of the funniest films I have seen for a very long time – anyone who still thinks that Americans donu0026#39;t do irony (always a stupid claim but one which is made time and again) should see this. But itu0026#39;s bone-dry and very subtle, and I can understand how many people were puzzled and bemused by this when it was first released and that it did not do well commercially.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePerformances are universally excellent, thou0026#39; Jeff Bridge as the starry-eyed son trying to discover who killed his half-brother, the US president, and John Huston as the paterfamilias and caricature mega capitalist are treat. The plot is nonsensical, but then that is the whole point of a film which sends up conspiracy films something rotten and then some. Buy the video, because this really does bear watching again and again.”