the prize

January 26 movie: The Prize. Paul Newman plays a Nobel-prize winning author. I know, bear with me. Newman is in Sweden to receive his Nobel prize, and discovers a plot to kidnap another Nobel prize winner. This was a fair-to-middling thriller. Reminded me of Hitchcock, notably North by Northwest and Foreign Correspondent. Hah, I just looked up The Prize on imdb.com and found out it was based on a book by the same author who wrote the book on which North by Northwest was based. No wonder they had scenes in common.