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The film has been described as a comedic variation on the 1975 dark thriller Three Days of the Condor starring Robert Redford, using the same premise of one CIA agent pursued by others intent on covering up dark secrets of the agency—or a comedic version of Philip Agee's rebellion. The movie has also been classified in the genre of post-Vietnam American comedies such as Stripes (1981) that played on the perceived incompetence of the federal government. The book's author explained in a documentary on the DVD that rather than basing the book on anything specific, he was unhappy with the spy movie genre, sensing that it had become more about gadgets, violence and sex than either realism or trickery, and wrote Hopscotch to be a spy novel without the sex, guns and gadgets.
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