Back-stabbing diamond thieves in England have absolutely nothing to do with Penn State. Which is one of many reasons to take a break and rent A Fish Called Wanda.
This comedy mixes crime, lust and a blend of American actors Jamie Lee Curtis, as Wanda, her fake brother Otto, played by Kevin Kline, and Monty Python veterans Michael Palin, as the stuttering gang member Ken, and John Cleese, as the English barrister Archie Leach.
This 1988 hit hilariously portrays a jewel heist gone wrong as a result of each character's neurotic behaviors. Wanda is the seductive American who is sleeping with most of the cast, in every sense of the word. She persuades her quasi-boyfriend, Otto, to pose as her brother in order to obtain the jewels, and plans on ditching him immediately except that her other boyfriend, George, secretly moves the loot in the time between the robbery and his arrest. In order to find the jewels, Wanda seduces George's unhappily married lawyer, Archie. Everyone in this movie has some type of issue. Wanda is the diamond-loving sex fiend with a passion for listening to foreign languages in bed.
Otto has a fetish for quoting Nietzsche, but not understanding it. He keeps ruining Wanda's attempts with Archie because of his inferiority complex. He goes crazy if anyone calls him stupid (which happens often), because, as Wanda tells him at one point, she's, "worn dresses with higher IQ's."
Meanwhile, animal-loving Ken, who can sometimes not talk at all due to the stutter, is trying to knock off the little old lady who is the one witness that can identify George.
In his many attempts to kill her, he accidentally ends up killing one of her many dogs in each failed effort, which makes him feel guilty enough to go to their funerals.
Ken also suspects something strange about Otto, so for most of the movie Otto pretends to be gay and puts the moves on Ken to throw him off track.
In A Fish Called Wanda, the humor is brash, the dialogue is clever, the language is vulgar and the entire movie revolves on sex and deception. You can't go wrong with a plot like that.
