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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 21, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Focus Features
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane & Woody Allen | |
Performer: | Julian Glover, James Nesbitt, Charles Dance, Kevin McNally & Anthony Head | |
Directed by | Woody Allen | |
Edited by | Alisa Lepselter | |
Screenwriting by | Woody Allen | |
Produced by | Letty Aronson & Gareth Wiley | |
Director of Photography: | Remi Adefarasin | |
Executive Production by | Stephen Tenenbaum |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Scoop is reminiscent of several of Woody Allen's films, but in a strange way, it harks back to films that were neither great nor lousy -- and like those films, it is an enjoyable diversion.
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Christianity Today
Rating: 3/5 --
Another comic murder mystery from Woody Allen.
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Common Sense Media
Ian McShane has a delicious cameo....[The] comedy has enough sly touches to keep us entertained.
Movieline's Hollywood Life
3 stars out of 4 -- Scarlett Jo, a potent combo of zaftig and zany, and Jackman, oozing killer charm, handle the sexual high jinks in style.
Rolling Stone
[A] romp, pure and simple. Allen and Johansson are a great double-act, Jackman’s as charismatic as ever and, most importantly, it’s full-on funny, with a tremendous punchline of an ending.
Total Film
Woody -- enough with the one-liners.
Observer
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Scoop is classic Allen -- light comedy with a murder mystery plot, supernatural themes and enough jokes about sex, death, psychoanalysis and philosophy to keep fans happy.
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Cinema Autopsy
Product Description:
In 2005, famed New York City filmmaker Woody Allen made MATCH POINT, a murder mystery set in London, starring Scarlett Johansson. Allen remains in London for the follow-up, the murder mystery SCOOP, again with Johansson, but this time he jumps in front of the camera as well. Woody plays Sid "Splendini" Waterman, a pathetic magician who somehow conjures up the ghost of Joe Strombel (Ian McShane), a recently deceased ace reporter who has been given a great scoop from beyond the grave. Strombel's spirit links onto young journalism student Sondra Pransky (Johansson), demanding that she get the story--and get it right. Pretending to be father and daughter, Sid and Sondra get into the good graces of Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman), a wealthy British lord who just might be the Tarot Card Killer, a madman who has been terrifying London by brutally murdering prostitutes. Against her better judgment, Pransky starts falling for the charming playboy even as she gathers more and more evidence that points to him as the probable killer. Jackman and Johansson have an intoxicating on-screen romantic chemistry that is a terrific counterpoint to the manic energy she shares with Allen. While MATCH POINT was an homage to Alfred Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, the comedy-thriller SCOOP pays tribute to the master director's FRENZY and NOTORIOUS. Allen also manages to get one of his favorite characters--Death (Peter Mastin) into the film. The score includes works by Tchaikovsky, Strauss, and Grieg as well as swinging numbers by Xavier Cugat and Lester Lanin.
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