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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: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 6836
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - oldtimes
Seems like old times. We have waited a long time for the release of a quality dvd of this "fun to watch" spy frolic and Criterion has done just that. Our package arrived in 3 days even with the standard shipping with the "ships free" option. We could not be more pleased.
Rating: - Love this film.
This is a witty, funny, and constantly entertaining film. We have watched it many times and recently gave a copy to friends who loved it as much as we did.
Rating: - Before it's time
Hopscotch is an intelligent and witty sendup of "cold war" spy activity that that puts modern political "commentary" movies to shame. Walter Matheau and Glenda Jackson are a superb pair of actors who pull off their characters with aplumb. I'm afraid that most of the new stars (relative to the time of "Hopscotch") just couldn't pull it off. And Ned Beatty as Meyerson - great!
Rating: - HOW TO OUTWIT THE CIA
WHAT A GOOD MOVIE. HE IS SO UTTERLY CLEVER IN THIS. WALTER MATTHAU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN AN AWARD FOR THIS. THE MOVIE IS FAST PACED--NO VIOLENCE, SEX AND VERY LITTLE SWEARING.
Rating: - DVD2008022301
I enjoyed this movie the first time I saw it and have continued to enjoy it each time. Now I can enjoy it whenever I want to see it. This is not a movie that the movie networks show at all so it is rare to find it. The language prevents this from being good fair for children but somehow the language seems to fit the part of the FBI agent; you know the type, all mouth and little knowledge. I would recommend this to anyone.
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