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Scoop is a 2006 American-British romantic comedy/murder mystery written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane, and Allen himself. The film was released in the United States by Focus Features on July 28, 2006.
Following the memorial service for investigative reporter Joe Strombel (Ian 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 (Hugh 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 murder victim's body.
Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson) is a beautiful but somewhat awkward American college journalism student on vacation in London. Pransky attends a performance given by magician Sid Waterman (Woody 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. The ghost has escaped the Grim Reaper himself to impart his suspicions of Lyman to a journalist who can investigate the story. 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.
Actors: Russel Savadier (writer), Nicky Rebello (writer), Roberta Durrant (producer), Paul Slabolepszy (writer), David Clatworthy (actor), Minky Schlesinger (writer), Craig Freimond (director), Craig Freimond (writer), James Borthwick (actor), Jeroen Kranenburg (actor), James Ngcobo (actor), Makhaola Ndebele (actor), Thomas Hall (writer), Jolene Martin-Morgan (actress), Hamilton Dhlamini (actor),
Plot: Dan "Scoop" Schoombie has to fill in for colleague Lucinda and review an art exhibition organised by the bolshy Precious Makathini. He finds himself in trouble when he drops and breaks an exhibit. Dan gets a hot tip from Deep Throat, his mysterious source, that the 3 times winner of the Comrades Marathon is in fact on performance enhancing drugs. Dan engineers a meeting with him, where he manages to "steal" the evidence. The Weekly Bystander's circulation is falling, so the paper's owner, Mr Montgomery, is threatening retrenchment. Dan thinks he could be out on the street, and so decides that a bikini-clad bimbo on the front page will sell papers. To Dan's consternation he hears that sports and crime writer Sparks is going to do an interview with a hooker. When Sparks goes down with flu, Dan ends up interviewing the new mayor under the assumption that she is a lady of ill repute. Featuring Charl Marais. The Weekly Bystander's owner, Mr Montgomery, feels that an agony-aunt column would improve sales. When Norman gets the task, Dan and the other staffers his efforts. When TJ hands the task over to Dan, catastrophe results.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Graham Cole (actor), Graham Cole (actor), Stuart St. Paul (writer), Stuart St. Paul (director), Stuart St. Paul (writer), Stuart St. Paul (producer), Gerard Naprous (actor), Laura Aikman (actress), Daniel Naprous (actor), Jean Heard (actress), Jean Heard (producer), Peter Pedrero (actor), Jean Heard (actress), Luke Aikman (actor), Malcolm Weaver (actor),
Plot: The night before Christmas, dad has to stop his two excited children from fighting. But Scoop hates his sister Hela and wishes her dead. Everything they say and do comes true in an unreal parallel world. Hela decides to become a Ghost and haunt Scoop even more. Scoops world without rules soon starts to fall apart and he soon finds he needs both rules and his sister.
Keywords: brother-sister-relationship, christmas, christmas-eve, family-relationships, father-daughter-relationship, father-son-relationship, ghost, haunting, surrealismActors: Michael Donovan (actor), Michael Donovan (actor), Paul Dobson (actor), Michael Donovan (actor), Garry Chalk (actor), Ian James Corlett (actor), Ian James Corlett (actor), Ian James Corlett (actor), Ian James Corlett (actor), Ian James Corlett (actor), Ian James Corlett (actor), Ian James Corlett (actor), Paul Dobson (actor), Paul Dobson (actor), Michael Donovan (actor),
Genres: Animation, Family,Actors: Chelcie Ross (actor), Charles Martin Smith (actor), Robert Minkoff (actor), Clifton James (actor), Sean Connery (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Andy Garcia (actor), Andy Garcia (actor), Billy Drago (actor), Kevin Costner (actor), Don Harvey (actor), Mike Bacarella (actor), Richard Bradford (actor), David Mamet (writer), Patricia Clarkson (actress),
Plot: Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein's _The Battleship Potemkin_.
Keywords: 1930s, accountant, action-hero, alcohol, alley-fight, assault-rifle, baby, baby-carriage, bar, baseball-batActors: Stella Stevens (actress), Jesse White (actor), Fergie Duhamel (actress), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), Henry Gibson (actor), Paul Walker (actor), David McCharen (actor), Donald Moffat (actor), John Carradine (actor), Claude Akins (actor), Paul Dooley (actor), Howard Duff (actor), Benny Baker (actor), Lloyd Kaufman (producer), Michael Herz (producer),
Plot: Monster is a spoof of horror/monster films. After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and mass panic.
Keywords: arthouse, cult, four-word-title, independent-film, monster, mutant, reporter, scientist, spoofActors: Harry Manfredini (actor), Sean S. Cunningham (producer), Harry Manfredini (composer), Sean S. Cunningham (director), John Travers (miscellaneous crew), Malachy McCourt (actor), Irwin Keyes (actor), Victor Miller (actor), Steve Miner (writer), Steve Miner (producer), Victor Miller (writer), Steve Miner (editor), Ari Lehman (actor), John Anthony Williams (actor), Noel Cunningham (actor),
Plot: Manny coaches soccer for the fashionable Creighton Hall school, but is relieved of duty because he is 'not a good match' for the school. He finds a job at a Catholic home for orphans, where he forms a new soccer team, with the help of one very good player Pepe who turns out to be a girl. 'Pepe' is the sister of one of the orphans, who comes to the all-boy orphanage posing as a boy, because her former foster home was an abusive environment. Along the way, Manny has incurred a gambling debt, his creditors begin to lean on him, and the boys find out. They set up a soccer game and stake the outcome against Manny's debt. If they win, the debt will be forgiven.
Keywords: bookie, coach, gender-disguise, girl, independent-film, school, soccer, soccer-coachActors: Richard Benedict (actor), Suzanne Ridgeway (actress), Ace Herman (producer), Cosmo Sardo (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), Virginia Carroll (actress), Murray Alper (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Harry Guardino (actor), G. Pat Collins (actor), Richard Conte (actor), James Millican (actor), Spade Cooley (actor), Edward J. Kay (composer), Steve Fisher (writer),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Barney A. Sarecky (producer), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), William Beaudine (director), Gabriel Dell (actor), Francis Ford (actor), Bernard Gorcey (actor), Leo Gorcey (actor), Buddy Gorman (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Frank Jaquet (actor), Bobby Jordan (actor), Ian Keith (actor), Fred Kelsey (actor), Kenneth MacDonald (actor), Jack Mulhall (actor),
Plot: Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent. They hide her from the police while they investigate.
Keywords: 1940s, apartment, b-movie, bow-tie, bowery-manhattan-new-york-city, brawl, chase, cigarette-smoking, copyboy, criminalActors: Byron Robinson (editor), Matthew Betz (actor), Edmund Breese (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Blanche Mehaffey (actress), Myrtle Stedman (actress), Edward T. Lowe Jr. (writer), E. Mason Hopper (director), Alec B. Francis (actor), Ben Hall (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Harry Strang (actor), Henry B. Walthall (actor), Gwen Lee (actress),
Genres: Mystery,Actors: Norman Houston (writer), Edmund Breese (actor), Louis King (director), Raymond Hatton (actor), Edward LeSaint (actor), Theodore von Eltz (actor), Bryant Washburn (actor), Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Blanche Payson (actress), Lois Wilson (actress), Morris R. Schlank (producer), Douglas Z. Doty (writer), Shirley Grey (actress), Irving Birnbaum (editor),
Plot: A pretty young lawyer discovers that her father needs an expensive operation to save his life. She goes to a nearby city and takes out an ad offering to marry whoever will pay her $5000, the cost of the operation. She soon finds herself involved with a newspaperman looking for a story, a drunken playboy and a con artist and his girlfriend out to fleece the playboy.
Keywords: based-on-novel, lawyer