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A Fish Called Wanda is a movie released in 1988 by MGM. It was written by John Cleese and directed by Charles Crichton. It stars Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. Image File history File links A_Fish_Called_Wanda_DVD.jpg A Fish Called Wanda File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Charles Crichton (August 6, 1910 - September 14, 1999) was a British film director. ...
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Curtis on the DVD cover of Blue Steel, 1990 Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958), known under British law as The Right Honourable Jamie Lee, Baroness Haden-Guest, is a Golden Globe-winning American film actress and a succesful author of books for children. ...
Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947 in St. ...
Michael Palin (1999) Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born May 5, 1943 in Broomhill, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England) is an English comedian, actor and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python, as well as for his travel documentaries. ...
John Du Prez (born December 14, 1946 in Sheffield) is a musician who has often worked with Eric Idle for the music for Monty Python. ...
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1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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John Cleese as Q in Die Another Day. ...
Charles Crichton (August 6, 1910 - September 14, 1999) was a British film director. ...
Curtis on the DVD cover of Blue Steel, 1990 Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958), known under British law as The Right Honourable Jamie Lee, Baroness Haden-Guest, is a Golden Globe-winning American film actress and a succesful author of books for children. ...
Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947 in St. ...
Michael Palin (1999) Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born May 5, 1943 in Broomhill, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England) is an English comedian, actor and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python, as well as for his travel documentaries. ...
Plot Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The film is a comedy about a jewel heist, planned by George Thomason (played by Tom Georgeson), and its aftermath. George's right-hand man is Ken Pile (Palin), an animal lover with a bad stutter. They bring in two Americans, sexy con artist Wanda Gershwitz (Curtis) and dim-witted hitman Otto West (Kline), who are lovers pretending to be siblings so Wanda can work her charms on George and Ken. Tom Georgeson in a British actor, known for his television and film work. ...
Stuttering (known as stammering in the UK and scientifically known as dysphemia) is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by prolongations, repetitions, and blocks of sounds, syllables, words or phrases. ...
After the robbery, Wanda and Otto betray George to the police. They belatedly learn that George has moved the loot to a new hiding spot in a public locker and won't reveal its location. Wanda decides the best way to get the information is by seducing George's lawyer, Archibald Leach (Cleese), a man stuck in a loveless marriage to a rich shrew of a woman. Otto, in the meantime, decides the best way is to get Ken to talk, first by pretending to be in love with him, and later by tying him up and threatening to eat his tropical Angel fish (one of which is named Wanda).
Ken is charged by George to silence a key witness, an old lady (Patricia Hayes) who owns three tiny Yorkshire terriers. In his attempts to assassinate her, Ken instead accidentally picks off the Yorkies one by one, to his great dismay. Following the death of her last little dog, the woman dies of a heart attack. Patricia Hayes, CBE (born Patricia Lawlor Hayes on December 22, 1909 in Camberwell; died September 19, 1998 in London) was a British-born comedy actress of Irish Catholic extraction. ...
After much betrayal and backstabbing and passing of the locker key from hand to hand, everybody races to the airport in an attempt to get away with the money. Ken gets his revenge on Otto, thus clearing up his speech impediment, while Wanda and Archibald have fallen in love and fly off into the sunset. George is left in jail.
Trivia Archibald Leach is the birth name of actor Cary Grant. Archibald Leitch is the name of a famous Scottish architect, who designed many football stadia throughout the United Kingdom. Cary Grant Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American film actor. ...
Archibald Leitch (1865 – 1939) was a Scottish architect, most famous for his work designing football stadiums throughout the United Kingdom. ...
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At one point Otto offers to rub out Kevin Delaney, presumably another gangster. Kevin Kline's middle name is Delaney.
Production The movie was a major critical and commercial success when it was released and has remained a popular favourite since. Kline won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work. The principal cast reunited in 1997 for Fierce Creatures, playing different roles and meeting less success. The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Fierce Creatures is a 1997 comedy movie, John Cleese and companys follow-up to the widely popular A Fish Called Wanda. ...
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted A Fish Called Wanda the 37th greatest comedy film of all time. In 2004 the same magazine named it the 41st greatest British film of all time. In 2000, the American Film Institute ranked the film 21st on its list of the 100 funniest movies ever made. This article is about the year 2000. ...
Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdoms second best-selling film magazine, after the longer-established Empire from Emap. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. ...
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