The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Image:Curse of the jade scorpion.jpg original movie poster
Directed by	Woody Allen
Produced by	Letty Aronson
Written by	Woody Allen
Starring	Woody Allen Dan Aykroyd Helen Hunt Charlize Theron
Distributed by	Image:Flag of the United States.svg DreamWorks Pictures (USA) UIP/Paramount Pictures (UK) Village Roadshow Pictures (Australia) other various worldwide distributors
Release date(s)	24 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]

• Tagline: Love stings.

[edit] External links

• The Curse of the Jade Scorpion at the Internet Movie Database
• Movie stills

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