Scoop
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
- Director: Woody Allen
- Genre: Comedy | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
- Tagline: The perfect man. The perfect story. The perfect murder.
- Runtime: 92 minutes
Cast
Jim Dunk : Funeral Speaker
Robert Bathurst : Strombel’s Co-Worker
Geoff Bell : Strombel’s Co-Worker
Christopher Fulford : Strombel’s Co-Worker
Nigel Lindsay : Strombel’s Co-Worker
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Following the memorial service for irrepressible investigative reporter Joe Strombel (McShane), Strombel’s spirit finds himself on the barge of death with several others, including a young woman who believes she was poisoned by her employer, Peter Lyman (Jackman). The woman tells Strombel she thinks Lyman, a handsome British aristocrat with political ambitions, may be the Tarot Card Killer, a notorious serial killer of prostitutes, and that he killed her when she stumbled onto his secret. The Tarot Card Killer left a card on each dead body after each murder.
Sondra Pransky (Johansson) is a beautiful but somewhat awkward American college journalist on vacation in London. Pransky attends a performance given by magician Sid Waterman (Allen), aka “The Great Splendini,” and agrees to participate on the stage. While in a booth known as The Dematerializer, Pransky encounters Strombel’s ghost who has escaped the Grim Reaper himself to impart his suspicions of Lyman to a journalist who can investigate the story (a scene influenced by a similar scene in Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria, where when Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) is about to expose a stage magician as a fraud, he performs actual magic). Sondra decides to infiltrate Lyman’s privileged world and find out if he truly is the dreaded criminal, enlisting Sid in the process and taking advantage of his powers of deception.
Sondra catches Lyman’s attention by pretending to drown near him at a swimming pool. When he rescues her, she introduces herself as Jade Spence, daughter of a wealthy oil family from Palm Beach. While Sid poses as her father, “Jade” begins dating Lyman. As the deception begins, Sondra is convinced Lyman is the murderer while Sid finds it impossible to believe. But as the film progresses and Sondra falls in love with Lyman, she begins to trust him as well. Meanwhile, Sid becomes less sanguine about Lyman as he notices more and more inconsistencies, especially after he and Sondra find a Tarot deck hidden under a French horn in Peter’s vault, a climate-controlled music room containing expensive musical instruments. Sid finally prevails upon Sondra to write a news story implicating Lyman, but the newspaper editor refuses the story because of Sondra’s lack of proof. Throughout their investigations, Sid and Sondra have a relationship that is in turns friendly, paternal, and also antagonistic — fueled largely by Sondra’s annoyance that her smooth “Jade Spence” charade is being compromised by Sid’s obnoxious attempts to act the part of a nouveau riche oil baron. Read more
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