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A Fish Called Wanda
Directed by
Charles Crichton
R
1988
1h 47m
Comedy
,
Crime
7.5
96%
84%
Rent for $3.99
In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach.
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Cast of A Fish Called Wanda
Jamie Lee Curtis
Wanda Gershwitz
John Cleese
Archie Leach / Writer
Kevin Kline
Otto
Michael Palin
Ken Pile
Maria Aitken
Wendy
Tom Georgeson
Georges Thomason
Cynthia Cleese
Portia
Patricia Hayes
Mrs. Coady
Geoffrey Palmer
Judge
Mark Elwes
Customer in Jeweler's Shop
Neville Phillips
Manager of Jeweler's Shop
Peter Jonfield
Inspector Marvin
Jeremy Child
Mr. Ian Johnson
Stephen Fry
Hutchison
Ken Campbell
Bartlett
Al Hunter Ashton
Warder
Roger Hume
Locksmith
Roger Brierley
Davidson
Llewellyn Rees
Sir John
Michael Percival
Percival
Kate Lansbury
Magistrate
Andrew MacLachlan
Eebeedee
Roland MacLeod
Vicar
Robert Putt
Policeman at Old Bailey
Pamela Miles
Mrs. Hazel Johnson
Sharon Marino
1st Junior Barrister
Patrick Newman
2nd Junior Barrister
David Simeon
Court Clerk
Robert Ian Mackenzie
Copper
Clare McIntyre
Airline Employee
Charles Crichton
Director / Writer
Michael H. Shamberg
Producer
A Fish Called Wanda Ratings & Reviews
Marty Fried
7d ago
Funny the first viewing, and again the second, Still funny the third time. In fact, it might get better each time
mickerdoo
July 17, 2025
Really funny. I was outright laughing at multiple parts. Kline as Otto was the best character but Ken had the best gag.
People Magazine
Peter Travers
Putting heart and heat into a film that could have easily slid by on silliness, Cleese proves himself a master actor.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
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.
Philadelphia Daily News
Ben Yagoda
As in most of his Python parts... Cleese's character is an extended riff on the concept of pomposity. But Archie is more leavened with humanity than any of his other roles.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Somehow, the movie manages to do the impossible: It makes John Cleese less than hilarious.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
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.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
There are a few hilarious moments, and a few more that are foolish and even disgusting.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
The movie's basic joke holds that the overbearing, unselfconscious Americans will do anything and say anything (and usually as loudly as possible), while the timorous British are nearly too polite to breathe.
House Next Door
Keith Uhlich
A Fish Called Wanda is at its most electric when it pits Cleese and Kline against each other.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Kevin Kline won the Supporting Actor Oscar for this funny and enjoyable farce, based on original script by John Cleese and Charles Crichton
Common Sense Media
Elliot Panek
Crime caper with a wicked edge. Not for kids.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Wacky farcical entertainment.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Wanda defies gravity, in both senses of the word, and redefines a great comic tradition.
TV Guide
Although filled with clever twists and double-crosses, the film's storyline is less important than the opportunities it gives the actors to exploit their goofy characterizations.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Like many of the best English comedies, much of the humor here is based on character, good-natured high spirits, and fairly uninhibited vulgarity.
Variety
Variety Staff
Though it is less tasteless, irreverent and satirical than the Python pics, film still is wacky and occasionally outrageous in its own, distinctly British way.
FulvueDrive-in.com
Chuck O'Leary
This fish is swimming with laugh-out-loud moments.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
It's not easy to describe the movie's accumulating dimness or to understand what went wrong.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The funniest movie I have seen in a long time.
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