Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Rent this fish

I'm living on the cheap these days, so one site I check often is the .99 cent movie of the week at iTunes. Every week iTunes offers up one movie for .99 and the beauty is that you can download it and watch it any time in the next 30 days.
This week it's the classic Fish Called Wanda, one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. (No. 1 is probably the slapstick What's Up Doc?)
Here's the plot description. If you only know Jamie Lee Curtis as the great mom in Freaky Friday, you really have to see this.
In A Fish Called Wanda, Jamie Lee Curtis plays an ambitious con artist who uses every ounce of her sexual wiles to obtain a fortune in jewels stolen by her gangster lover Tom Georgeson. First, she romances Georgeson’s dimwitted but deadly henchman Kevin Kline (who won an Academy Award for his performance). Then, to clear the path for her getaway with Kline, Jamie woos Georgeson’s starched-shirt attorney, John Cleese—and it’s Cleese whom she genuinely falls in love with. Michael Palin, Cleese’s former Monty Python cohort, plays a stuttering mob flunkey who continually messes up his one big assignment: killing a little old lady (it isn’t that he has any qualms about knocking off the old dear; it’s just that her pet dogs keep getting in the way). A Fish Called Wanda was scripted by star John Cleese.

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