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A Fish Called Wanda

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Item number:320324233899
Item location:Des Moines, IA, United States
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Format: VHSRating: R
Leading Role: Jamie Lee Curtis, John CleeseDirector: Charles Crichton
UPC: 086162475238Format: NTSC (US, Canada)
Condition: Very GoodGenre: Comedy
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In A FISH CALLED WANDA, veteran director Charles Crichton and scriptwriter-star John Cleese create a dazzling quilt from various strands of English and American comedy. The plot, in which four disparate characters attempt a daring heist, comes from Ealing caper comedies, such as Crichton's own THE LAVENDER HILL MOB. Cleese and Michael Palin, as the hit man with a stutter and a love of animals, come from the anarchic tradition of Monty Python. The movie pays savage tribute to another Ealing comedy, THE LADYKILLERS, as Palin attempts to kill a witness to the gang's getaway. The glamorous con woman (Jamie Lee Curtis) is from Preston Sturges's great comedy THE LADY EVE, while Kevin Kline provides his own unique feverish comic intensity. But, in the midst of this breathless comedy, something else happens. The barrister, Archie Leach (Cleese), who is defending one of the gang, is jolted out of his tight-laced British existence by Curtis's life force. And Curtis--like Barbara Stanwyck in THE LADY EVE--falls into her own trap: falling in love with the man she's conning. The 78-year-old Crichton never before had such rich material. He times everything in this brilliant comedy with the precision of a Swiss watch.

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Producer:Michael Shamberg
Cast:Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Maria Aitken, Michael Palin, Tom Georgeson

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Theatrical release: July 29, 1988.

Filmed at Twickenham Studios and at location in London and Oxford, England.

A FISH CALLED WANDA is number 21 on the American Film Institute’s list of America's 100 Funniest Movies.

A FISH CALLED WANDA is number 39 on the British Film Institute’s Top 100 British Films of the 20th Century.

Archibald Leach is the name that John Cleese and Charles Crichton give to the character that Cleese plays in A FISH CALLED WANDA. This is a tribute to the great Cary Grant--Archibald Leach was Grant's real name.

Stephen Fry makes a brief cameo appearance in the airport sequence. He is best known for his television roles in BLACKADDER II and JEEVES AND WOOSTER. Also he is the author of THE LIAR, THE HIPPOPOTAMUS, and MOAB IS MY WASHPOT. And he starred as Oscar Wilde in WILDE.

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"...A convulsively funny affair....It's a smart farce about ingrained cultural differences..."
Los Angeles Times - Sheila Benson (07/15/1988)

"...Wildly out of control as well as wildly funny, this sleeper smash is also Oscar-nominated for script and direction..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (02/23/1989)

Awards
1988 Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Kline

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