The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

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Studio: DreamWorks

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Aug 24, 2001

Running Time: 103 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

Country Of Origin: Germany

starring: Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Helen Hunt, Elizabeth Berkley, Charlize Theron, John Tormey, John Schuck, Kaili Vernoff, Brian Markinson, Maurice Sonnenberg

director: Woody Allen

In 1940, CW Briggs is the top insurance investigator in New York--or so he keeps telling the firm's new efficiency expert, Betty Ann Fitzgerald. Briggs prides himself on being able to crack any insurance caper by getting into the mind of the thief, but now, thanks to the hypnotic powers of the Jade Scorpion, the mind of a thief is getting into Briggs.

August 6, 2001

While the internet is abuzz with the usual Woody Allen bitchfests ("I stopped watching the perv's films. . . . Boy, does Woody look old. . . . Give it up, Woody, you're yesterday's news"), the sixty-five-year-old filmmaker continues to practice his craft with consistent artistic aplomb. Last year, Woody scored his biggest box-office success in eons with Small Time Crooks, a less daring film than the succes d'estime he had the year before with Sweet and Lowdown but still a comedy that laced its…

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Director Woody Allen follows last year's hit Small Time Crooks with another wacky crime caper. This time, the setting is New York City in the 1940s and the plot is replete with jewel thieves, hypnotism and cheating husbands. In The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Allen does what he does best.

Story

CW Briggs (Allen), a New York insurance investigator, has cracked many cases, but, in Allen's inimitable style, is very disorganized. Enter Betty Ann ''Fitz'' Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt), an uptight…

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CW Briggs

Chris Magruder

Betty Ann 'Fitz' Fitzgerald

Elizabeth Berkley

Jill

Charlize Theron

Laura Kensington