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VHS John Cleese/A FISH CALLED WANDA/ J Curtis/M Palin

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Item specifics - VHS
Format: VHSRating: R
Leading Role: Jamie Lee Curtis, John CleeseRelease Date: Oct 08, 1996
Director: Charles CrichtonUPC: 027616589538
Format: NTSC (US, Canada)Condition: Acceptable
Genre: ComedySub-Genre: --
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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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Edition:Contemporary Classics
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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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This listing is for a slightly used original 1 owner vhs of the hilarious movie

A FISH CALLED WANDA

Starring John Cleese (of Monte Python fame) and Jamie Lee Curtis, and Kevin Kline and Michael Palinthe following information is taken from the sleeve back..

COMEDY

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER 1988(supporting actor)

The Funniest Movie I have seen in a Long Time"--Ebert

Monty Python's John Cleese and Michael Palin team with Jamie Lee Curtis and Oscar winner Kevin Kline in this hilarious comedy caper with pits the british high clall against the American Heist Class.

  Clees is Archie Leach, the proper British barrister who finds himself in quite a mess when he tangles with Wands (Curtis) a pretty American girl with a penchant for flirting, a lust for foreign languages..and an obsession for money.  In order to seduce Archie into revealing the location of a fortune in jewels, stonen by his client, Wanda is ready to pull out all the stops.  Unfortunately for both of them, her boyfirend and partner, (Kline) is ready to pull out all of Archie's limbs!Who ends up with the jewels? and who ends up withWanda?  It's anybody's guess, bu one thing's for certain: A FISH CALLED WANDA  is so "stuffed to the gills with laughs" (los Angeles Times), you'll fall for it hook, line and sinker...

If you are a Python fan or Fawlty Towers fan or just like the madcap humour of the English...this is the DVD for you...laugh too...

closed captioned..color..MGM Home entertainment...Contemporary Classics..rated R..cigital video transfer..hi fi..1 hr 48 min...

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