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Hopscotch By Jeff Shannon
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.
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"Hopscotch was probably the best spy movie ever made. Walter Matthau is a cunning CIA agent who goes up against a pompous, arrogant, know-it-all, new on the job, CIA Director. And, before it's over, has the secret service agents of the three superpowers looking for him to "stop" his book from reaching the public. Matthau opens up a whole new world of espionage style and "succeeds" in keeping you in suspense and laughter! I could watch this movie many times over. I have been looking for a copy of this movie for years." --Beth Orr |
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|  | Director: Ronald Neame
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| | Stars: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Herbert Lom
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| | Released: October 10, 1980
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