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Official Discussion Official Throwback Discussion – The Curse of the Jade Scorpion [SPOILERS] Spoiler

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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

Summary

An insurance investigator and an efficiency expert are hypnotized by a crooked magician and unknowingly become pawns in a jewel heist.

Director Woody Allen

Writer Woody Allen

Cast

  • Woody Allen as C.W. Briggs
  • Helen Hunt as Betty Ann Fitzgerald
  • Dan Aykroyd as Chris Magruder
  • Charlize Theron as Laura Kensington
  • Wallace Shawn as George Bond
  • David Ogden Stiers as Voltan
  • Elizabeth Berkley as Jill
  • Brian Markinson as Al
  • John Schuck as Mize
  • Kaili Vernoff as Rosie
  • Peter Gerety as Ned
  • Kevin Cahoon as Lunch Delivery Man

Rotten Tomatoes: 44%

Metacritic: 52

VOD / Release Theatrical — August 24, 2001

Trailer Official trailer

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u/DJ-2K 1d ago

This is not one of Woody Allen's better films by any means, but I never hated this one. I laughed.