A Fish Called Wanda
1988 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Diamond-loving American Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) has come to London with her demented, self-loving, and Nietzsche-quoting boyfriend Otto (Kevin Kline) in hopes of pulling off an armed diamond heist. The couple team up with two Brits, George (Tom Georgeson) and Ken (Michael Palin), a stuttering animal lover who plots to kill his annoying elderly neighbor but keeps knocking off her little dogs, much to his sorrow. After the heist, the four conspirators turn on one another in an attempt to keep the loot for themselves. Wanda and Otto inform on George and get him locked up, little knowing that he has already stashed the diamonds somewhere else. It appears that George's lawyer, prim and straight-laced Archie Leach (John Cleese), may be the only (free) person who knows where the grand haul is hidden, so Wanda sets out to seduce Archie, much to Otto's discomfort.
Direction Charles Crichton
Cast John Cleese · Kevin Kline · Jamie Lee Curtis · Michael Palin · Maria Aitken · Tom Georgeson · Patricia Hayes · Stephen Fry · Geoffrey Palmer
Soundtrack John Du Prez
Screenplay John Cleese
Cinematography Alan Hume
Original title A Fish Called Wanda
7.0
43K votes (FilmAffinity)
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