Video:

Scoop is presented in full-frame video. The age shows on screen – faces are swallowed by shadow in many shots, and outdoor scenes in the sun are slightly washed out. There is grain as well. There certainly was little restoration done, and the original copy looks to be in pretty bad shape.

Audio:

The Dolby Digital 2.0 track fares slightly better than the picture. Dialogue is muffled in some scenes, which can make some of the thicker English accents nearly unintelligible – a drawback compounded by the lack of subtitles available. There's not a lot else on the soundtrack besides the dialogue anyway; Scoop is a film about a war without a single gunshot or act of extreme violence (save for one instance of a chair broken over a man's head).

Extras:

Cast profiles are provided for Maloney and Elliot, while Waugh gets a biography and a list of quotes on writing and life.

Final Thoughts:

The late-90s war and media film Wag the Dog is built on the premise that a free press, despite the great rewards for finding the big story, would not be able to blow the whistle on a government concocting a war. Scoop does a fair job of showing just how the press could go about exactly that and, while it may lack in some storytelling areas, is an interesting satire.