Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 03/23/1999
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 1/5.1
Run Time: 108 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: MGM

In A Fish Called Wanda, Jamie Lee Curtis plays an ambitious con artist who uses every ounce of her sexual wiles to obtain a fortune in jewels stolen by her gangster lover Tom Georgeson. First, she romances Georgeson's dimwitted but deadly henchman Kevin Kline (who won an Academy Award for his performance). Then, to clear the path for her getaway with Kline, Jamie woos Georgeson's starched-shirt attorney, John Cleese -- and it's Cleese whom she genuinely falls in love with. Michael Palin, Cleese's former Monty Python cohort, plays a stuttering mob flunkey who continually messes up his one big assignment: killing a little old lady (it isn't that he has any qualms about knocking off the old dear; it's just that her pet dogs keep getting in the way). A Fish Called Wanda was scripted by star John Cleese.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
John Cleese - Archie Leach
Jamie Lee Curtis - Wanda Gerschwitz
Kevin Kline - Otto West
Michael Palin - Ken
Tom Georgeson - George
Maria Aitken - Wendy Leach
Patricia Hayes - Mrs. Coady

Production:
Charles Crichton - Director
John Cleese Lee Rich Michael Shamberg Steve Abbott - Producer
John Du Prez - Composer
John Jympson - Editor
John Cleese Charles Crichton - Screen Writer
Stephenie McMillan - Set Designer
John Comfort - Associate Producer
Priscilla John - Casting
Alan Hume - Cinematographer
Hazel Pethig - Costume Designer
John Cleese - Executive Producer
Steve Abbott - Executive Producer
Jonathan Benson - First Assistant Director
Paul Engelen - Makeup
Roger Murray-Leach - Production Designer
Charles Crichton - Screen Story
John Cleese - Screen Story
Gerry Humphreys - Sound/Sound Designer
George Gibbs - Special Effects
Romo Gorrara - Stunts
John Wood - Art Director

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