The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1991-05-01
Runtime: 89 mins
Director: Ben Lewin
Spoken language: English
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Original title: The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
Production Companies: Fildebroc, Les Films Ariane, Sovereign Pictures, Umbrella
Production Countries: United Kingdom, France, United States of America
Cast
Bob Hoskins
Jeff Goldblum
Natasha Richardson
Michel Blanc
Jacques Villeret
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Angela Pleasence
Carlos Kloster
Claudine Mavros
Artus de Penguern
Martine Ferrière
Sacha Vikouloff
Beth McFadden
Samuel Chaimovitch
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