The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

1991

1h 29m

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Comedy
Romance

A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.

Directors

Writers

Marcel Aymé(novel by)
Ben Lewin(screenplay by)
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Bob Hoskins
Louis Aubinard
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Jacques Villeret
Lingerie Man
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Angela Pleasence
Louis' Sister
Carlos Kloster
The Archbishop
Claudine Mavros
Mother Superior
cast-pic
Artus de Penguern
Saint Francis
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Martine Ferrière
Mother of Lingerie Man
Sacha Vikouloff
The Violinist
Beth McFadden
Birthday Party Girl
Yvonne Constant
Prostitute
cast-pic
Gérard Zalcberg
Released Prisoner
Daniel Lombart
Porno Dubbing Man

Directors

Writers

Marcel Aymé(novel by)
Ben Lewin(screenplay by)

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Release date

May 1, 1991 (United States)

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Language

English

Production companies

Fildebroc
Les Films Ariane

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