Hopscotch (movie)

Hopscotch is a 1980 American motion picture directed by Ronald Neame and produced by Otto Plaschkes. It was written by Bryan Forbes and Brian Garfield, based on his novel of the same name.

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1980 - American - Ronald Neame - Otto Plaschkes - Bryan Forbes - Brian Garfield

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The movie is a comedy starring Walter Matthau as renegade CIA agent Miles Kendig intent on publishing a memoir exposing the inner workings of the CIA and the KGB. Sam Waterston and Ned Beatty play Cutter and Myerson, the bumbling CIA agents repeatedly foiled in their attempts to capture him and stop the publication of the damaging memoir. Herbert Lom is Yaskov, the sympathetic KGB agent with an equal interest in his capture. Glenda Jackson plays Isobel von Schonenberg, his Austrian love interest who helps him stay one step ahead of his captors. Matthau's son David plays Ross, a bumbling junior CIA agent.

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Walter Matthau - CIA - KGB - Sam Waterston - Ned Beatty - Herbert Lom - Glenda Jackson - Austrian - David

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The movie can be seen as a comedic variation of the 1975 dark thriller Three Days of the Condor starring Robert Redford, using the same premise of one CIA agent pursued by others intent on covering up dark secrets of the agency—or a comedic version of Philip Agee's rebellion. The movie may also be classified in the genre of post-Vietnam American comedies such as Stripes (1982) that played on the perceived incompetence of the federal government.

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1975 - Three Days of the Condor - Robert Redford - Philip Agee - Post-Vietnam - Stripes - 1982

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The movie was received in a lukewarm manner by critics and was a moderate financial success during its release.

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