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A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

 -  Comedy | Crime  -  15 July 1988 (USA)
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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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Storyline

Sexy American diamonds lover Wanda and her boyfriend Otto are in England to plot alongside George and Ken the robbery of a diamond collection. Wanda and Otto want the stolen diamonds for themselves, and inform the police about George not knowing that he has already moved the diamonds to another secret place. Wanda thinks the best way to find out is by getting close to George's lawyer - Archie Leach. Written by Sami Al-Taher <staher2000@yahoo.com>

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A New Comedy About Sex, Murder and Seafood. See more »

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Comedy | Crime

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15 July 1988 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Los enredos de Wanda  »

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Budget:

$7,500,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$63,493,712 (USA)
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Trivia

John Cleese who plays British barrister Archie Leach actually entered Cambridge University as a law student although he never became a member of the British bar. See more »

Goofs

Wanda is in a car putting on red lipstick. After a cutaway and return to Wanda in close-up, she is wearing bright pink lipstick. See more »

Quotes

Wanda: Archie? Do you speak Italian?
Archie: I am Italian! Sono italiano in spirito. Ma ho sposato una donna che preferisce lavorare in giardino a fare l'amore appassionato. Uno sbaglio grande! But it's such an ugly language. How about... Russian?
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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 »

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Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #21.136 (2013) See more »

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"Deutschlandlied"
Written by Joseph Haydn and August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben
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Excellent Film! Very Funny!
26 December 1998 | by (Western Australia) – See all my reviews

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++++


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