Scoop
starring: Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane, Alexander Armstrong
directed by: Woody Allen
directed by: Woody Allen
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AN AMERICAN JOURNALISM STUDENT IN LONDON SCOOPS A BIG STORY & BEGINS AN AFFAIR WITH AN ARISTOCRAT AS THE INCIDENT UNFURLS.
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
AN AMERICAN JOURNALISM STUDENT IN LONDON SCOOPS A BIG STORY & BEGINS AN AFFAIR WITH AN ARISTOCRAT AS THE INCIDENT UNFURLS.
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
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Perfectly Executed Comedic Gem
Charming, quirky, macabre, dark, mood lightening, well directed, hilarious... These are just the beginning of a much longer list of adjectives I could use to describe this wonderful film. If you are a fan of Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman, or Scarlett Johansson you simply MUST see this film. The chemistry between the actors is delicious as are the wonderfully scripted lines and gags.
Rating: - vERY FUNNY
i LOVED THIS FIRST OFF AS I LOVE BRITISH COMEDIES, AND THIS ONE WAS GREAT! IT IS A SUSPENSE MURDER MYSTERY COMEDY, I WATCH IT ALOT AND I LAUGH EACH AND EVERY TIME!
Rating: - WOODY ALLEN, A BEAUTIFUL GIRL, AND FUN MYSTERY
This is the funniest serial killer mystery ever filmed. You will chuckle and laugh at Woody Allen who plays a magician that gets involved with a reporter want-to-be. It's a bit far fetched but that's part of the comedy charm of this one.
A dead reporter returns from the hereafter to tell the budding school journalist (played by Scarlett Johansson) about the biggest scoop in crime journalism. She picks up the story, with additional occasional help from the dead man and a Vaudevillian ... Read More
Rating: 
- Nearly turned off the DVD player 40 minutes in
I love the way Woody Allen has reinvented himself. I thought Match Point was very good and Vicky Cristina Barcelona was excellent. So I had high hopes for Scoop.
I watched it last night and almost turned off the movie halfway into it. Scarlett Johansson turns in possibly her worst performance. She is not a great actress by any means. But in this role she came across like an actor in her first college play. She is exposed as being very amateurish; it was embarrassing and somewhat uncomfortable ... Read More
Rating: 
- Bought it for $5, not disappointed!
I liked this movie!Woody Allen is a cute old man, and Hugh Jackman is a whole different kind of cute!!!
- Perfectly Executed Comedic GemCharming, quirky, macabre, dark, mood lightening, well directed, hilarious... These are just the beginning of a much longer list of adjectives I could use to describe this wonderful film. If you are a fan of Woody Allen, Hugh Jackman, or Scarlett Johansson you simply MUST see this film. The chemistry between the actors is delicious as are the wonderfully scripted lines and gags.
- vERY FUNNYi LOVED THIS FIRST OFF AS I LOVE BRITISH COMEDIES, AND THIS ONE WAS GREAT! IT IS A SUSPENSE MURDER MYSTERY COMEDY, I WATCH IT ALOT AND I LAUGH EACH AND EVERY TIME!
- WOODY ALLEN, A BEAUTIFUL GIRL, AND FUN MYSTERYThis is the funniest serial killer mystery ever filmed. You will chuckle and laugh at Woody Allen who plays a magician that gets involved with a reporter want-to-be. It's a bit far fetched but that's part of the comedy charm of this one.
A dead reporter returns from the hereafter to tell the budding school journalist (played by Scarlett Johansson) about the biggest scoop in crime journalism. She picks up the story, with additional occasional help from the dead man and a Vaudevillian ... Read More
- Nearly turned off the DVD player 40 minutes inI love the way Woody Allen has reinvented himself. I thought Match Point was very good and Vicky Cristina Barcelona was excellent. So I had high hopes for Scoop.
I watched it last night and almost turned off the movie halfway into it. Scarlett Johansson turns in possibly her worst performance. She is not a great actress by any means. But in this role she came across like an actor in her first college play. She is exposed as being very amateurish; it was embarrassing and somewhat uncomfortable ... Read More
- Bought it for $5, not disappointed!I liked this movie!Woody Allen is a cute old man, and Hugh Jackman is a whole different kind of cute!!!
