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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 1, 2006
- 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:
Wanda defies gravity, in both senses of the word, and redefines a great comic tradition.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Cleese's cracking script gives it a solid foundation, but it's the supporting cast who make this movie wanda-ful.
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Total Film
Rating: 3/4 --
Perhaps the most unusual aspect of what is surely the year's most original and daring comedy is that John Cleese is not the funniest performer in it. Believe it or not, that honor goes to none other than the usually somber Kevin Kline.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
...Wildly out of control as well as wildly funny, this sleeper smash is also Oscar-nominated for script and direction...
USA Today
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
5 stars out of 5 -- The comic heart is the tangled intrigue of triple-crosses, scams and deceits, seductions and betrayals...
Total Film
Putting heart and heat into a film that could have easily slid by on silliness, Cleese proves himself a master actor.
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People Magazine
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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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 120,420
- UPC: 027616139603
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