Dead Fish
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| Dead Fish | |
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| Directed by | Charley Stadler |
| Written by | Adam Kreutner David Mitchell |
| Story by | Thomas Geiger Charley Stadler |
| Produced by | David Bergstein Dan Maag Matthias Deyle Philip Schulz-Deyle |
| Starring | Robert Carlyle Gary Oldman Andrew Lee Potts |
| Cinematography | Fraser Taggart |
| Music by | Andy Cato |
| Distributed by | Image Entertainment |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | English |
Dead Fish is a 2004 English-language German action comedy film starring Robert Carlyle, Gary Oldman, Andrew-Lee Potts and Elena Anaya.[2][3]
Plot
[edit]Lynch (Gary Oldman), an emotionless food connoisseur, stops a thief who stole a phone from Mimi (Elena Anaya) in a railway station. Falling in for her instantly, he doesn't notice that she accidentally switched phones with him. She later gives Lynch's phone to her boyfriend, Abe Klein (Andrew-Lee Potts) who works as a locksmith. When Lynch's employers try to assign him another assassination over the phone, Abe and his pot-smoking slacker artist friend go to warn the victim, Mr. Fish (Terence Stamp), hoping for a reward.
Concerned by Abe's behaviour over the phone, the employer has another operative, Virgil (Billy Zane), who hasn't met Lynch in person, to check up on him. Virgil has a Czech killer, Dragan (Karel Roden), brought in to deal with "Lynch".
All the while, Danny Devine (Robert Carlyle), a foul-tempered, foul-mouthed loan shark, is driving around trying to collect from various deadbeat clients including Abe.[4]
Cast
[edit]- Robert Carlyle as Danny Devine
- Cassandra Bell as "Sugar" Waters
- Gary Oldman as Lynch
- John Pearson as Deck Day
- Kevin McNally as Frank Rosenheim
- Elena Anaya as Mimi
- Andrew Lee Potts as Abe Klein
- Billy Zane as Virgil
- Karel Roden as Dragan
- Terence Stamp as Mr. Fish
References
[edit]- ^ "UK Cult Fave 'Dead Fish' Bound for Blu-ray, HD DVD (UPDATED) - High-Def Digest". www.highdefdigest.com. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ "DEAD FISH by Charley Stadler". cineuropa.org. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
- ^ "DEAD FISH by Charley Stadler". frenchfilmsite.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-20. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
- ^ "Gary Oldman to star in Dead Fish" (PDF). fame.uk.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-20. Retrieved 2015-02-20.
External links
[edit]- Dead Fish at IMDb
- Dead Fish at Rotten Tomatoes
- Dead Fish at Hollywood.com
- 2004 films
- 2004 action comedy films
- 2004 crime comedy films
- English-language German films
- British action comedy films
- British crime comedy films
- Films about kidnapping
- Films about contract killing
- Films about mobile phones
- 2000s English-language films
- 2000s British films
- English-language crime comedy films
- English-language action comedy films