Scoop

Scoop
by Woody Allen

Scoop
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Actor: Alexander Armstrong, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane, Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen
Director: Woody Allen
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios

Movie Reviews of Scoop

Movie Review: WOODY ALLEN, A BEAUTIFUL GIRL, AND FUN MYSTERY
Summary: 5 Stars

This is the funniest serial killer mystery ever filmed. You will chuckle and laugh at Woody Allen who plays a magician that gets involved with a reporter want-to-be. It's a bit far fetched but that's part of the comedy charm of this one.

A dead reporter returns from the hereafter to tell the budding school journalist (played by Scarlett Johansson) about the biggest scoop in crime journalism. She picks up the story, with additional occasional help from the dead man and a Vaudevillian magician (Woody Allen).

The killer is a rich Londoner (played by Hugh Jackman)and a handsome guy so the young reporter falls in love with him, naturally, and becomes his lover. Woody Allen bungles his way through the girl reporter's scoop investigation pretending to be her father. Well, all that's the serious side of the film, all the rest is fast-paced comedy, perfect for Woody Allen. A delight to all Woody Allen fans.

Lots of laughs along with a mystery plot. What's not to like. Not blood, nudity, violence, and horror--just funny, great, fast entertainment. And at a reasonable price.

Summary of Scoop

Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman star in this hilariously twisted tale of murder and mystery. When an inquisitive college journalist (Johansson) stumbles upon new clues to a string of murders, her investigation leads directly to a handsome businessman (Jackman), who draws her in with his mysterious charm. Could a whirlwind romance with the subject of her search also become the most dangerous scoop of a lifetime? Experience the laughs in this witty new comedy that will have you guessing until the very end.
Light and charming, Scoop blends murder, ghosts, and falling in love. While inside of a magician's magic cabinet, aspiring journalist Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation) is visiting by the ghost of a dead reporter (Ian McShane, Deadwood) who has gotten a hot tip in the afterlife: A rising young politician named Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman, X-Men) may be the notorious serial killer who leaves tarot cards by his victims. With the magician (writer-director Woody Allen) in tow, Sondra sneaks her way into Lyman's life--and, despite increasing evidence that the tip is true, finds herself falling in love with him. Scoop is stronger than Allen's last film, the overrated Match Point; moment to moment, scene to scene, it's his most zippy and entertaining movie in years. It still suffers from laziness--Allen seems unwilling to look at the plot's holes and find a way to sew them up--and Allen's own persona, with his now-rote comic stutterings and hesitations, drags on the film's momentum. Despite this, Scoop has flashes of suspense and wit that, in an unknown filmmaker, would be cause for celebration. Also featuring Charles Dance (White Mischief) and Romola Garai (I Capture the Castle), one of the few actresses who can compete with Johansson in lusciousness. --Bret Fetzer

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