Subgenre
Recommended, Romances, Thieves, Jewels, Scams And Cons, Essential Cinema
Available Formats
DVD: 2-Disc Set; Collector's Edition
Professional Reviews
(02/23/1989, p.3D, Mike Clark): "...Wildly out of control as well as wildly funny, this sleeper smash is also Oscar-nominated for script and direction..."
Quotes from the Movie
"I used to box for Oxford."--Archie (John Cleese) <br> "I used to kill for the CIA."--Otto (Kevin Kline) <br> <br> "To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've known sheep that could outwit you. I've worn dresses with higher I.Qs."--Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) to Otto <br> <br> "Wanda, do you have any idea what it's like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing, of saying to someone 'Are you married?' and hearing 'My wife left me this morning,' or saying, uh, 'Do you have children?' and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday? You see, Wanda, we're all terrified of embarrassment. That's why we're so dead. Most of my friends are dead, you know, we have these piles of corpses to dinner. But you're alive, God bless you, and I want to be, I'm so fed up with all this. I want to make love with you, Wanda. I'm a good lover--at least I used to be, back in the early fourteenth century. Can we go to bed?--Archie to Wanda <br> <br> "Not you, Ken; you've got a beautiful speaking voice--when it works."--Otto to Ken (Micahel Palin)
