| Shooting Fish [Region 2] |  | Director: Stefan Schwartz
Actors: Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend, Kate Beckinsale, Rowena Cooper, Scott Charles
Category: DVD
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Rating:  34 reviews
Format: PAL
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017239191107
ASIN: B00005AUKT
Theatrical Release Date: May 1, 1998
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Shooting Fish is the kind of movie that evaporates once the end credits roll, but it's lightweight fun while it lasts. An amusing prologue sets the tone: Two young orphan boys--one in America, one in England--demonstrate their precocious ability to subvert the strict rules of society. Eighteen years later, the clever Yankee schemer Dylan (Dan Futterman) and techno-geek Jez (Stuart Townsend) are fast friends in London, pulling off a series of royal scams to finance their dream of building a luxurious home for orphans--of course, it's a selfish cause since they're the orphans. Their newly hired secretary Georgie (played by the delightful Kate Beckinsale) goes along with their con games in the belief that their intentions are good, and when she discovers their selfish motivations... well, let's just say the boys (who are both smitten with the charming medical student Georgie) manage to rise to the occasion and do the right thing. Despite a few clever twists, this frothy plot meanders too much to be very involving, but the three young costars make it all worthwhile. (Futterman had already played Robin Williams's son in The Birdcage and Beckinsale made a strong impression in The Last Days of Disco.) It's one of those featherweight British comedies that's so good-natured you feel Scroogey if you resist it, and director and cowriter Stefan Schwartz has made the movie just smart enough to hold its own against a wall-to-wall soundtrack of kitschy pop songs. If you don't consider "cute" a derogatory term, this movie will offer an agreeable diversion. --Jeff Shannon
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 Watch For the Easter Eggs June 18, 2009
jessjess
Reading through some of the reviews, looks like a lot of people are taking this movie way too seriously! One of the funniest things about Shooting Fish is how quirky and odd it is!
This is a screwball comedy with some pretty snappy one-liners. "Insulation for the Nation." (You'll just have to see it...) And if you pay attention to the stuff in the background you'll see some pretty bizarre, completely irrelevant easter eggs. I won't tell you any though. You have to discover them on your own.
If you like witty and obscure movies, you'll dig this one.
 scene missing February 28, 2008
luke (australia)
This is a good movie but american audiences dont get the full picture,
there is a scene where two men who are angry with the fact they have been conned break into the place where Jez lives and smash everything up all awhile yelling things randomly. And while this scene isnt to big in the overall plot i know it was there and i feel cheated.
but at the same time i understand because they are yelling things that relate back to english subjects like "the right to have a warm beer" which i guess americans wouldnt need to know but still it was in the orginal movie.
Waiting for the princess October 4, 2005
Constantinos V. (Houston, TX USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the most interesting thing about this movie. It is not the princess waiting for the prince but two orphan boys dreaming and waiting for their princess. On the meantime they think of incredible ways to take advandage of people. It has very funny situations that will really make you laugh. I highly recommend it.
 great entertainment August 8, 2003
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a very funny movie. I was captured by the first scam sequence. The cast do a very good job and the chemistry between
Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend is wonderful. The characters are fresh and original and my daughter and I laughed all the way through it. This is a clean movie with only a few curse words. Dan Futterman is gorgeous and Stuart Townsend even though playing a shy electronics nerd is irresistable as usual. A must see for any fan of one of these two men.
 mindless fun for people why can turn off their mind June 30, 2003
it (Sunnyvale, CA USA)
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
Every aspect covered by this film is different from the way the real world works. This includes the totally false technology, business leaders with poor judgment, government officials that give people's personal data to telephone callers, a medical student with the intelligence of a 12 year old, and the way the tax system works. The only realistic part was the few minutes of Phyllis Logan being a competent woman business executive. In her case this probably was not acting, as she is a pretty competent woman to start with. Her part is the only reason my copy has not found its way to the trashcan. There is a reason why new copies are under $...and used ones around $....
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