A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

	Director: Charles Crichton	COUNTRY United Kingdom Genre Comedy NORWEGIAN TITLE En fisk ved navn Wanda RUNNING TIME 108 minutes
	Producer: Michael Shamberg
	Screenwriter: John Cleese

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Archie	John Cleese	½
Wanda	Jamie Lee Curtis	½
Otto	Kevin Kline
Ken	Michael Palin	½
Wendy	Maria Aitken
George	Tom Georgeson	½
Mrs. Coady	Patricia Hayes

Review

Elegant intro, smart heist, clever denouement. This superb comedy of manners with a delightful hint of absurdity marked the culmination of the collaboration between veteran British director Charles Crichton, who was 77 at the time and hadn’t directed a feature film since the 1960s, and Monty Python co-founder John Cleese, who wrote the script and starred as Archie Leach. The film is a brilliant observer of and commenter on the cultural contrasts between American gung-ho attitude and British stiffness, with a playful Jamie Lee Curtis and a peak-form (comedy-wise) Kevin Kline as proponents for the former, and Cleese and Michael Palin as representatives for the latter. Not many comedies manage to be both silly and brainy at the same time, but A Fish Called Wanda does just that – as well as a few other things that might surprise you. Kline won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work, one of only a handful of times this has happened for a purely comedic performance.