Rating: R
Genre:
Spy Film
Release Date: 08/20/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 105 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Criterion
Walter Matthau plays a CIA agent who's been confined by office politics to a desk job. The disgruntled Matthau quits the service and heads to Europe, where he links up with former lover (an fellow ex-agent)
Glenda Jackson. All goes smoothly until Matthau acts on the advice of yet another retired agent, Russian
Herbert Lom, who suggests that Matthau write a tell-all autobiography. Spitefully, Matthau sends out copies of his first chapter to the heads of the CIA agencies throughout the world--and from that point on, he and Jackson don't have a moment's peace. This delights Matthau: now that all of his former colleagues are chasing after him, he has a reason to get up in the morning. As written by
Brian Garfield,
Hopscotch was a conventionally serious espionage novel. As adapted for the big screen by Garfield and
Bryan Forbes,
Hopscotch is a lively exercise in cloak-and-dagger comedy, even when the pursuit of Matthau turns deadly towards the end.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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