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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025193121325
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 5533
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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! System Requirements:Run Time: 96 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 025193121325 Manufacturer No: 62031213
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Underrated
Even third rate Allen is a few notches funnier than the best dreck Hollywood offers, and all Allen films get better with successive viewings. This tale- a bit over an hour and a half, uses several key themes in the Allen canon- sex, deceit, lies, murder, and magic, and also has much in common with 1993's underrated Manhattan Murder Mystery, his terrific 1984 film, Broadway Danny Rose- perhaps his best straight comedy, and some of 1989's Oedipus Wrecks- from the New York Stories trilogy film Allen ... Read More
Rating:  - Back to Basics
It is certainly hard to believe that Woody Allen has been creating films for over a generation - the mind boggles at the extent of his entire body of work. There isn't a filmmaker out there one could say has hit the mark every time, and Allen isn't an exception. His last serious film, Match Point, had mixed reviews as most of Allen's non-comedic films do, however the dialogue was truly excellent and the ending quite ruthless. In a word, one of his latest projects, Scoop, is a gem. The jokes are non ... Read More
Rating:  - It's like half a movie...
I will attest to the fact that I did not expect anything more than a passing good time walking into `Scoop', although I was hoping for more. I got what I expected and so for that I am thankful. Regardless of the bad reviews it received upon it's release, `Scoop' has a lot going for it (not the least of which is Johansson's comedic timing) and while it does not stack up to Allen's previous `Match Point' (how anyone can say that `Match Point' is overrated is beyond me when it's lack of a Best Picture ... Read More
Rating:  - Stale and Bland
As a filmmaker, Woody Allen has been in steady decline for 15 years or more. Scoop is not the worst of his latter day movies, but assuredly it is one that will not stand tall among his other productions. At first I hoped it was based on Evelyn Waugh's book of the same title but I soon discovered that it bore no relation to that masterful work. The performances here are acceptable, but the plot itself is weak and features a rather goofy ending (in my view). Hugh Jackman's bad guy was a bit of a stretch, ... Read More
Rating: - Entertaining
This is very entertaining, an HBO movie that you watch in the middle of the day when you don't have to work. Also, I do think Hugh Jackman is absolutely sexy...wow...but I think this was a good film to help me pass the time. It is cute and comical, and I don't think it's supposed to be anything more.
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