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Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala

Original title: The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
  • 19911991
  • RR
  • 1h 29m
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6.2/10
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Jeff Goldblum, Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson, and Michel Blanc in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
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A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno... Read allA farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a r... Read allA farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus a... Read all

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  • Director
    • Ben Lewin
  • Writers
    • Marcel Aymé(novel)
    • Ben Lewin
  • Stars
    • Bob Hoskins
    • Jeff Goldblum
    • Natasha Richardson
  • Director
    • Ben Lewin
  • Writers
    • Marcel Aymé(novel)
    • Ben Lewin
  • Stars
    • Bob Hoskins
    • Jeff Goldblum
    • Natasha Richardson
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 11User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
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      • 1 win

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    Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
    Jeff Goldblum, Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson, and Michel Blanc in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
    Jeff Goldblum, Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson, and Michel Blanc in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
    Jeff Goldblum, Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson, and Michel Blanc in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
    Jeff Goldblum, Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson, and Michel Blanc in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
    Jeff Goldblum and Natasha Richardson in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
    Bob Hoskins in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
    Jeff Goldblum in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
    Bob Hoskins and Natasha Richardson in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
    Natasha Richardson and Sacha Vikouloff in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
    Jeff Goldblum and Bob Hoskins in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)
    Bob Hoskins in Rakkaus, kello ja jättiläiskala (1991)

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    Bob Hoskins
    Bob Hoskins
    • Louis Aubinard
    Jeff Goldblum
    Jeff Goldblum
    • Pianist
    Natasha Richardson
    Natasha Richardson
    • Sybil
    Michel Blanc
    Michel Blanc
    • Norbert
    Jacques Villeret
    Jacques Villeret
    • Lingerie Man
    Angela Pleasence
    Angela Pleasence
    • Louis' Sister
    Jean-Pierre Cassel
    Jean-Pierre Cassel
    • Zalman
    Samuel Chaimovitch
    • Grandfather
    Sacha Vikouloff
    • The Violinist
    Claudine Mavros
    • Mother Superior
    Carlos Kloster
    • The Archbishop
    Yvonne Constant
    • Prostitute
    Martine Ferrière
    Martine Ferrière
    • Mother of Lingerie Man
    Gerald Morales
    Gerald Morales
    • Bishop's Driver
    Yannick Evely
    • Mother Superior's Driver
    Jacques Herlin
    Jacques Herlin
    • Man with Hook-nose
    Eric Averlant
    • Taxi Driver
    Gérard Zalcberg
    Gérard Zalcberg
    • Released Prisoner
    • Director
      • Ben Lewin
    • Writers
      • Marcel Aymé(novel)
      • Ben Lewin
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    • Trivia
      The sculpture, next to which Sybil and Louis were supposed to meet again, is the copy of 'An Orangutan Strangling a Borneo Savage' by Emmanuel Frémiet, 19th-century French artist, famous for his sculptures depicting wild animals, especially those of great apes.
    • Quotes

      Louis Aubinard: I mean, I've got my doubts. I'm not totally convinced about God. If he's there, he's there. If he's not, he's not. In fact, if he is there at least I can say I've done more for him than he's done for me. He's performed no miracles for me, my friend. "Cast thy bread upon the waters and it shall be returned to you a thousand-fold." But what can you do with a thousand loaves of wet bread?"

    • Alternate versions
      UK cinema and video versions feature a BBFC-cut print which edits footage from the sex cinema scene and dubs out a reference to 'sodomy'.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Lethal Weapon 3/The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish/The Waterdance/Night on Earth/All the Vermeers in New York (1992)

    User reviews11

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    9/10
    The fish is wet but the humor is dry
    You have to enjoy dry humor to really get the benifet of the film. Bob Hoskins plays the main character Louis Aubinard who thinks he is the most unlucky person on the face of the earth. His whole life begins to change when his boss played by Michel Blanc threatens to fire him if he does not find an actor to be photographed as Jesus. After work he visits his friend Zalmen who is sick he asks Louis to do him a FAVOR. He asks him to go down to studio and pretend that he is him and do the sound affects for a film. After that he seea a fish market outside his friend's apartment building and sees a VERY BIG FISH and buys it for supper. The next morning he goes to the studio only to find out he is looping sound affects for a porno film. At the studio he works with a women by the name of Sybil played by Natasha Richardson. When going out to lunch with her she tells the him the story of her last job and a never smiling pianist who falls head over heals for her. She meets him because of a little rich girl who will give her a WATCH if she can get him to smile. And that is only the first 45 minutes of this very humorus film. It is a great film to watch on a rainy day.
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    • Release date
      • February 14, 1992 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • France
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
    • Filming locations
      • Eclair Studios, Epinay, France
    • Production companies
      • Fildebroc
      • Les Films Ariane
      • Sovereign Pictures
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $164,767
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 29 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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