A Fish Called Wanda (Blu-ray) R
A tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 3, 2017
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Arrow Video
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 |
Entertainment Reviews:
94%
84%
Rating: 5/5 --
Low comedy at high speed, it pretends to be a caper movie about a smooth London jewel heist and its infinitely complex aftermath. Actually, it's a smart farce about ingrained cultural differences.
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Los Angeles Times
Somehow, the movie manages to do the impossible: It makes John Cleese less than hilarious.
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Orlando Sentinel
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
In the Monty Python tradition, the script is an assembly of skitlike situations cobbled into a flimsy story. The humor is cruel and at times wildly funny.
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Maclean's Magazine
The antics alone are fun to watch, but the dialogue is priceless, and there's never been such a hilarious blend of American and British humor.
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United Press International
The key to Wanda's comedy is the ever-shifting loyalties of its four nutty main characters.
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Under the Radar
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
Description by OLDIES.com:
In 1988, John Cleese, former Python and the mastermind behind Fawlty Towers, teamed up with the veteran Ealing Comedy director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) to produce another classic of British comedy.
Cleese plays Archie Leach, a weak-willed barrister who finds himself embroiled with a quartet of ill-matched jewel thieves - two American con artists played by Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline, Michael Palin's animal-loving hitman and London gangster Tom Georgeson - when Georgeson is arrested. Only he and Palin know the whereabouts of the diamonds, prompting plenty of farce and in-fighting as well as some embarrassing nudity and the unfortunate demise of some innocent pooches...
Nominated for three Academy Awards and winning one for Kline's outstanding supporting turn as the psychopathic Otto, A Fish Called Wanda has stood the test of time, earning its rightful place among its creators' remarkable comedy pedigree.
- Brand-new 4K restoration from the original negative, produced by Arrow Films exclusively for this release
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Original English mono audio (uncompressed LPCM)
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Commentary by writer and star John Cleese
- Brand-new appreciation by Vic Pratt of the BFI National Archive
- Brand-new interviews with composer John Du Prez, production designer Roger Murray-Leach, executive producer Steve Abbott and makeup supervisor Paul Engelen
- John Cleese's Final Farewell Performance, a 1988 documentary on the making of A Fish Called Wanda featuring interviews with actors Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Palin, Kevin Kline and director Charles Crichton
- Something Fishy, a 15th anniversary retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Cleese, Curtis, Kline and Palin, executive producer Steve Abbott and director of photography Alan Hume
- Fish You Were Here, a documentary on the film's locations hosted by Robert Powell
- 24 deleted/alternative scenes with introductions by Cleese
- A Message from John Cleese, a tongue-in-cheek introduction recorded for the film's original release
- Gallery
- Trivia track
- Theatrical trailer
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Booklet featuring writing on the film by Sophie Monks Kaufman
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