The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Country: US/GER
Technical: DuArt 102m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, Dan Aykroyd, Wallace Shawn, Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Berkley
Synopsis:
1943: an insurance investigator at a reputable east coast firm has to battle with the streamlining ways of his new female boss, while defending his old-fashioned methods based on tip-offs and intuition. When they are both hypnotised by a nightclub impresario there are momentous consequences for their personal and professional lives.
Review:
Once again Allen derives inspiration from show busines and the 1940s setting make this seem like a prolonged episode from Radio Days. The nostalgia goes some way towards distracting from the patent lack of correspondence between his age and those of his co-stars, as do the wisecracks (nobody minded that Bob Hope wasn't attractive). The conceit is simple enough, if ambiguously resolved, and the touch of making him an insurance man rather than a private eye dovetails neatly with all the 'grubby weasel' gags.s
Country: US/GER
Technical: DuArt 102m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, Dan Aykroyd, Wallace Shawn, Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Berkley
Synopsis:
1943: an insurance investigator at a reputable east coast firm has to battle with the streamlining ways of his new female boss, while defending his old-fashioned methods based on tip-offs and intuition. When they are both hypnotised by a nightclub impresario there are momentous consequences for their personal and professional lives.
Review:
Once again Allen derives inspiration from show busines and the 1940s setting make this seem like a prolonged episode from Radio Days. The nostalgia goes some way towards distracting from the patent lack of correspondence between his age and those of his co-stars, as do the wisecracks (nobody minded that Bob Hope wasn't attractive). The conceit is simple enough, if ambiguously resolved, and the touch of making him an insurance man rather than a private eye dovetails neatly with all the 'grubby weasel' gags.s
Country: US/GER
Technical: DuArt 102m
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, Dan Aykroyd, Wallace Shawn, Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Berkley
Synopsis:
1943: an insurance investigator at a reputable east coast firm has to battle with the streamlining ways of his new female boss, while defending his old-fashioned methods based on tip-offs and intuition. When they are both hypnotised by a nightclub impresario there are momentous consequences for their personal and professional lives.
Review:
Once again Allen derives inspiration from show busines and the 1940s setting make this seem like a prolonged episode from Radio Days. The nostalgia goes some way towards distracting from the patent lack of correspondence between his age and those of his co-stars, as do the wisecracks (nobody minded that Bob Hope wasn't attractive). The conceit is simple enough, if ambiguously resolved, and the touch of making him an insurance man rather than a private eye dovetails neatly with all the 'grubby weasel' gags.s