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

Peter Jonfield

Ken Campbell

Al Ashton

Roger Hume

Roger Brierley

Michael Percival

Jeremy Child

David Simeon

Stephen Fry

Michael Shamberg

John Du Prez

Charles Crichton

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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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