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A Fish Called Wanda (1988) 7.6
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Reviews: 185 user | 89 critic | 17 from Metacritic.com In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot. |
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In London, George Thomason, his seductive American girlfriend Wanda Gershwitz, and their associate Ken Pile are planning their latest crime, a diamond heist that should net them £13 million. They plan on leaving the country with the goods after the heist. On Wanda's recommendation, they enlist the help of her brother, Otto, a weapons expert, for this heist. In reality, Otto is not Wanda's brother, but her latest lover, a dimwit who gets off on his own body odor, who believes he's an intellectual because he reads Nietzsche, and who does not tolerate being called stupid by anyone. Wanda has one weakness in men which is how Otto was able to get her to be his lover: speaking Italian in seduction. Wanda and Otto plan to double cross George by having him arrested for the heist, while they abscond with the jewels. Wanda further plans to triple cross Otto by eliminating him from the picture after she has the jewels. They are able to get George arrested with him not knowing who tipped the ... Written by Huggo
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barrister | stuttering | lawyer | lifting someone into the air | real life father and daughter playing father and daughter |Taglines:
A New Comedy About Sex, Murder and Seafood. See more »Parents Guide:
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Release Date:
5 August 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Los enredos de Wanda See more »Box Office
Budget:
$7,500,000 (estimated)Gross:
$63,493,712 (USA)Company Credits
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1.37 : 1
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Written by Joseph Haydn and August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben
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John Cleese claims that this is Charles Crichton's movie. He merely took a co-director credit to reassure studio execs who were worried about Crichton's advanced age and the fact that he had not directed a theatrical movie for 23 years. The only work major work Cleese did as director was near the end of the shoot, when he handled various scenes mostly involving Michael Palin, to allow Crichton to start overseeing the editing. See more »Goofs
When Ken shoots the piece of wood that keeps the giant block of cement from falling, the rope/wheel slides down in the incorrect counter-clockwise direction. See more »Crazy Credits
At the very end of the closing credits is the word FIN -- which is how French films say THE END, but in English a "fin" is a part of a fish. See more »Soundtracks
DeutschlandliedWritten by Joseph Haydn and August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben
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A Fish Called Wanda is my favourite movie of all time and always will be. John Cleese has written this masterpiece very cleverly, his best best writing piece since Fawlty Towers. Kevin Kline, who won an Oscar for his role in the film, is excellent as the looppy, arm pit sniffing Otto, and is my favourite in the film. Michael Palin is also brilliant as the stuttering Ken. John Cleese, in a role rather different to Basil Fawlty and his Monty Python characters, plays the lawyer Archie Leach fantastically. But the movie is all around Jamie Lee Curtis' Wanda, who is an American thief, after diamonds that she, Otto, Ken and George (Tom Georgeson) stole. In order to get the diamonds, Wanda has a fling with just about everybody. The movie will leave you in suspense wondering who will get the diamonds. Along the way, there are plenty of funny lines and gags, especially from Kline. A top movie. Watch A Fish Called Wanda, don't skip it. A++++