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A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 heist comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and written by Crichton and John Cleese. It stars Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin. The film follows a gang of diamond thieves who double-cross one another to recover stolen diamonds hidden by their jailed leader.
Jul 29, 1988 · With John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin. In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Charles Crichton, John Cleese
- 1988-07-29
Four conniving jewel thieves...three Yorkshire ...more. A stellar cast that includes John Cleese, Michael Palin, Kevin Kline (who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for his performance) and...
- 2 min
- 326.9K
- Amazon MGM Studios
Page 1 of 2, 4 total items. British gangster George Thomason (Tom Georgeson) and his hapless aide, Ken Pile (Michael Palin), draft a pair of arrogant Americans, grifter Wanda Gerschwitz (Jamie...
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- Charles Crichton, John Cleese
- R
- Comedy
A Fish Called Wanda. An American flirts with a crook, a barrister and a mercenary to find diamonds in London. 3,964 IMDb 7.5 1 h 47 min 1988. X-Ray R. Comedy · Cheerful · Outlandish · Campy. Available to rent or buy. Rent movie. HD $3.99 $2.79. Buy. HD $14.99. More purchase. options.
In “A Fish Called Wanda,” for example, Michael Palin is desperately in love with a tank of tropical fish, and so Kline, who is equally desperate about discovering the whereabouts of some stolen jewels, eats the fish, one at a time, in an attempt to force Palin to talk.
At the London flat of Ken an animal lover with a large tank of tropical fish (the large angelfish is named "Wanda", after his flatmate George's sexy American girlfriend) and a nasty stutter, a meeting takes place with himself, the attractive Wanda, her lover George and her "brother" Otto.
