Rating: PG13
Genre:
Mystery
Theatrical Release: 07/28/2006(USA
Release Date: 11/21/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Both laughs and thrills are on the masthead in this
comedy drama about a would-be reporter written and directed by
Woody Allen.
Sondra Pransky (
Scarlett Johansson) is an American journalism student who travels to England to visit friends. While in London, she attends a magic show where magician Sid "Splendini" Waterman (
Woody Allen) brings her on-stage as part of a trick in which he makes her disappear. However, while waiting to be "de-materialized," she's visited by the ghost of a murdered reporter (
Ian McShane), who passes along the scoop of the decade. The spirit claims that
Peter Lyman (
Hugh Jackman), the wealthy and handsome son of a well-known aristocrat, is leading a double life as "the Tarot Card Killer," a serial murderer who has been terrifying the nation and eluding police. With the magician's help,
Jane begins investigating the story and is able to piece together some incriminating evidence against
Lyman. However, the more she learns, the more dangerous her investigation becomes -- especially when she falls into a romance with the suspected killer.
Scoop was
Woody Allen's second consecutive film with leading lady
Scarlett Johansson, after the critically acclaimed
Match Point; it was also
Allen's second feature to be shot in Great Britain.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Average Review:
Number of reviews: 1
Write an online review and share your thoughts with others!
A reviewer
from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A Ghost Writer's Comedical Mystery.
London is the location for Woody Allen's comedy-mystery in which he plays a magician, who helps Scarlett Johansson as a beautiful college journalist, who was contracted by a dead reporter's ghost (Ian McShane) to solve a murder mystery involving tarot cards. Also starring Hugh Jackman, Charles Dance, Julian Glover, Kevin McNally, and Meg Wynn Owen.
;)
