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Criterion Collection: Hopscotch
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![](/rcimages/rc1big.jpg) (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The inimitabIe comic team of WaIter Matthau and GIenda Jackson star in this nimbIe taIe of internationaI intrigue from master British fiImmaker RonaId Neame. Based on Brian GarfieId s best-seIling novel, the bIithe thriller centers on MiIes Kendig (Matthau), a disilIusioned retired CIA agent who, with the help of a chic and savvy Viennese widow (Jackson), threatens to pubIish his memoirs and expose the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. Despite being in major hot water with his former coIleagues, Kendig refuses to get in Iine he s having too much fun. Set to the sounds of Mozart, this lighthearted sendup of the paranoid dramas of its era is an expertIy crafted, singuIar take on the spy movie.
DVD SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration
- lnterviews from 2002 with director RonaId Neame and writer Brian GarfieId
- Walter Matthau in a 1980 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show
- Trailer and teaser
- OptionaI broadcast teIevision audio track for family viewing
- PLUS: An essay by critic GIenn Kenny |
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