Hopscotch [VHS]
by Ronald Neame
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Actor: Glenda Jackson, Herbert Lom, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Walter MatthauDirector: Ronald Neame
Producer: Brian Garfield
Writer: Brian Garfield
Producer: Edie Landau
Producer: Ely A. Landau
Producer: Jonathan Bernstein
Producer: Otto Plaschkes
Writer: Bryan Forbes
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 106 minutes
Release Date: 1989-02-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Embassy
Studio: Embassy
VHS Movie Reviews of Hopscotch [VHS]
Movie Review: I love this movie!
Summary: 4 Stars
Miles Kendig (played Walter Matthau) is a CIA agent who is used to doing things his way. When his new chief, the abusive and bombastic G.P. Myerson (Ned Beatty), decides to retire him behind a desk, Kendig decides that the CIA needs a house cleaning--and that his memoirs would make the perfect broom. Now Kendig is on the run from the Agency: sending out new chapters, playing hide-and-seek with old associates. It's all a game, a game of hopscotch, and Kendig needs to keep one step ahead. Will he succeed? [Color, released in 1980, with a running time of 1 hour, 44 minutes.]I have loved this movie since it came out in 1980! It is just the perfect mix of adventure and humor. Humorous, but not a comedy movie--it's an adventure story with a sense of humor. And now for the bad news: to make his character more dislikable, Ned Beatty swears incessantly in this movie, which makes it a little much to watch in front of small children (I have two). That said, though, I do not know why this movie deserved its R rating. There is no nudity, and practically no violence. And I must add, the swearing is not too much for adult viewers; I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't break into uproarious laughter when Myerson angrily gives his opinion of what FBI stands for!
Summary of Hopscotch [VHS]
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. --Jeff ShannonMovies most talked about in Video Genres
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