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Hopscotch - Criterion Collection

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780026056
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780026055
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 2571
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1980

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Editorial Review:

Description:
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.

Amazon.com:
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




Rating: - Comedy
This is a long time favorite. Walter Mattau at his best. Great lines, quirky plot. Watched over ... Read More

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Rating: - You Can Skip It
This is an odd choice to get the full Criterion treatment as it's a fairly tame cold war romantic ... Read More

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Rating: - Delightful put-down of stuffy bureacracies
Walter Matthau, is, as always, a top performer, and this DVD is no exception. It is essentially a ... Read More

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Rating: - dvd
this dvd was alot of fun to watch and the way the story played out kept you wanting to watch.

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Rating: - Getting his own back
One of the most humorous, get the establishment I've seen. Walter Mattheau is superb as the opera ... Read More

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