The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

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Directed by Woody Allen
Produced by Letty Aronson
Written by Woody Allen
Starring Woody Allen,
Helen Hunt,
Charlize Theron
Distributed by DreamWorks Pictures (USA)
UIP/Paramount Pictures (UK)
Village Roadshow Pictures (Australia)
other various worldwide distributors
Release date(s) 5 August 2001
Running time 103 min.
Language English
Budget ~ US$26,000,000
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion is a 2001 film directed, written by, and starring Woody Allen. The cast also features Dan Aykroyd, Elizabeth Berkley, Helen Hunt, John Schuck, Wallace Shawn, David Ogden Stiers, and Charlize Theron. The plot concerns an insurance investigator and an efficiency expert that are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist into stealing jewels.

The film received a "rotten" rating from film-review website Rotten Tomatoes and fared poorly in American theaters with ticket sales of less than seven million dollars [1].

With its production budget of $26 million dollars, it is Allen's most expensive film. According to boxofficemojo its worldwide gross was $18.9 million. [2]



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