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A Fish Called Wanda

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Film: A Fish Called Wanda

John Cleese

Jamie Lee Curtis

Kevin Kline

Michael Palin

Maria Aitken

Tom Georgeson

Patricia Hayes

Geoffrey Palmer

Cynthia Caylor

Mark Elwes

Neville Phillips

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19/05/2001

BBC One - A Fish Called Wanda

Offbeat comedy in which a con artist uses her female charms to steal a stash of jewels.

Comedy in which a con artist uses her charms to steal jewels from her gangster boyfriend, taking advantage of his henchman and a lawyer to realise her plan.

Offbeat black comedy in which a con artist uses her female charms to steal a stash of jewels from her gangster boyfriend, taking advantage of his henchman and a lawyer - with whom she later falls in love - to realise her cunning plan. The group's various criminal escapades are often complicated by the presence of a hapless mobster, whose mission to kill an elderly witness proves increasingly hard.

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