The Annihilation of Fish

Sep 12, 1999

1h 42m

★ 6.3

A Crazy Love Story.

Overview

A Jamaican widower recently released from a mental institution and a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giacomo Puccini become the unlikely tenants of an eccentric widow in Los Angeles.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Comedy

Production Companies

American Sterling Productions

Paul Heller Productions

The Annihilation of Fish Trailers

Cast

Fish

James Earl Jones

Poinsettia

Lynn Redgrave

Mrs. Muldroone

Margot Kidder

Reno Minister's Wife

Sarah Benoit

Wedding Groom

Andy Garza

New York City Minister

Tommy Redmond Hicks

Reno Minister

Ronald F. Hoiseck

Hippie Preacher's Wife

Shannon Wilcox

Young Hippie Woman

Victoria Prismantas

Mailman

Paul M. Heller

Social Worker

David Kagen

Woman at Bus Station

Arlene Albertson

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6.7

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6.0

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5.3

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5.5

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7.2

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3.7

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4.4

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6.1

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6.5

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3.4

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6.1

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4.5

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4.8

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5.7

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7.5

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