Scoop (2006 film)

Scoop is a 2006 AmericanBritish romantic comedymurder 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.

Sondra Pransky Johansson is a beautiful but awkward American journalism student 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 Strombels ghost. The ghost has escaped the Grim Reaper himself to impart his suspicions of Lyman to a journalist who can investigate the story. N Sondra decides to infiltrate Lymans 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 Lymans attention by pretending to drown near him at an exclusive clubs 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. Sondra is convinced Lyman is the murderer, but Sid finds it hard to believe. As the film progresses, however, Sondra falls in love with Lyman and begins to trust him. Meanwhile, Sid becomes less sanguine about Lyman as he notices more and more inconsistencies, especially after Sondra finds a Tarot deck hidden under a French horn in Peters vault, a climatecontrolled music room containing expensive antique musical instruments. Sid finally prevails upon Sondra to write a news story implicating Lyman, but the newspaper editor refuses the story because of Sondras lack of proof. Throughout their investigation, Sid and Sondra have a relationship that is in turns friendly, paternal, and antagonisticfueled largely by Sondras annoyance that her smooth Jade Spence charade is being compromised by Sids obnoxious attempts to act the part of a nouveau riche oil baron. ........

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