The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Aug 5, 2001

1h 43m

★ 6.6

Love stings

Overview

CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Romance

Production Companies

Gravier Productions

DreamWorks Pictures

VCL Communications

Capitol Films

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion Trailers

Cast

Chris Magruder

Dan Aykroyd

Betty Ann Fitzgerald

Helen Hunt

CW Briggs

Woody Allen

Laura Kensington

Charlize Theron

Voltan

David Ogden Stiers

Brian Markinson

Sam

John Tormey

Mize

John Schuck

Jill

Elizabeth Berkley

Rosie

Kaili Vernoff

Office Worker

Maurice Sonnenberg

Ned

Peter Gerety

Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two...

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