Hopscotch - Criterion Collection
by Ronald Neame
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Actor: Glenda Jackson, Herbert Lom, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Walter MatthauDirector: Ronald Neame
Brand: MATTHAU,WALTER
Producer: Brian Garfield
Writer: Brian Garfield
Producer: Edie Landau
Producer: Ely A. Landau
Producer: Jonathan Bernstein
Producer: Otto Plaschkes
Writer: Bryan Forbes
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-20
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Hopscotch - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Hopscotch......Engaging Comedy/Intrigue
Summary: 4 Stars
I have enjoyed this movie over the years. There are great scenes of Salzburg. Walter Matheau and Ned Beatty provide great laugh-out-loud polarized comedy. But viewers beware, and read the fine print.........the format is not wide-screen. Be prepared to watch this DVD in a narrow-horizontal format.
Summary of Hopscotch - Criterion Collection
Miles Kendig knows too much. One of the CIA's top international operatives, he suddenly finds himself relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, Kendig, with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA wants Kendig dead, but he refuses to cooperate-he's having too much fun. Based on Brian Garfield's best-selling novel, and starring the inimitable comic team of Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, Ronald Neame's Hopscotch is a smart and stylish tale of international intrigue and a cat-and-mouse comedy.Walter Matthau is in peak form in Hopscotch, a featherweight spy-game comedy in which he plays a CIA agent who's way smarter than his dimwitted superiors. That's the fantasy part--this amusing cat-and-mouse game is so lopsided that you can't take it seriously. The movie's charm is derived from the sardonic pleasure with which Matthau makes his pursuers look like idiots, after they've targeted him for "termination" for publishing a tell-all memoir about his tenure in "the Company." He's no stool pigeon, however; it's his boss (played with blustery thick-headedness by the great Ned Beatty) who's abusing his power, so Matthau recruits an old lover (Glenda Jackson) to join him in a globetrotting game of clandestine cleverness. Under Ronald Neame's too-casual direction, this is a not-so-wild goose chase, but Matthau and Jackson (reuniting after they had fun making the 1978 comedy House Calls) have an easygoing chemistry that's nicely balanced with Matthau's cantankerous shenanigans. --Jeff Shannon
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