Hopscotch (1980)

Directed by

Ronald Neame

Genre

comedy film, spy film, comedy thriller

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 181 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former CIA agent grows tired of his bosses and decides to write a tell-all memoir. He outwits his former handlers as they try to stop him from publishing it.

lightheartedcleverwittyplayfulslyamusingbriskunderstated

What happens

Hopscotch is a 1980 American comedy spy film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty and Herbert Lom. The screenplay was written by Bryan Forbes and Brian Garfield, based on Garfield's 1975 novel. Garfield took the title of his book from the children's playground game, "wherein a player has to retrieve 'an elusive object' while hopping on a sidewalk from space to space. One false step or clumsy move could mean falling and landing on one's backside." Matthau's performance received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the 38th Golden Globe Awards. In 2002, the Criterion Collection released the film on DVD, followed by a 2K restoration on Blu-ray in 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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