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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 23, 1999
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline & Michael Palin | |
Performer: | Tom Georgeson & Maria Aitken | |
Directed by | Charles Crichton | |
Edited by | John Jympson | |
Screenwriting by | John Cleese & Charles Crichton | |
Composition by | John Du Prez | |
Produced by | Michael Shamberg | |
Director of Photography: | Alan Hume |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1988 -
Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Kline
Entertainment Reviews:
The key to Wanda's comedy is the ever-shifting loyalties of its four nutty main characters.
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Under the Radar
Rating: 5/5 --
Low comedy at high speed, it pretends to be a caper movie about a smooth London jewel heist and its infinitely complex aftermath. Actually, it's a smart farce about ingrained cultural differences.
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Los Angeles Times
Somehow, the movie manages to do the impossible: It makes John Cleese less than hilarious.
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Orlando Sentinel
Like many of the best English comedies, much of the humor here is based on character, good-natured high spirits, and fairly uninhibited vulgarity.
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Chicago Reader
In the Monty Python tradition, the script is an assembly of skitlike situations cobbled into a flimsy story. The humor is cruel and at times wildly funny.
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Maclean's Magazine
Wanda defies gravity, in both senses of the word, and redefines a great comic tradition.
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TIME Magazine
A Fish Called Wanda is vintage black comedy, British-style -- a cruel, dastardly, down-and-dirty jewel-robbery romp that pits thief against thief, while entangling an innocent bystander in the web of greed, romance and decidedly cockeyed high jinks.
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Product Description:
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.
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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