The Annihilation of Fish

I'm not sure how this movie could have been funnier, but I'm glad it wasn't: if I had laughed any harder, I would have p**d in my pants. Top-flight performances by three top-flight actors made this comedy one of the best I have seen in years.

The ending was completely predictable... If you can't guess how the movie will end after watching the first ten minutes or so, you just aren't trying. Even though you generally know what's going to happen, the craftmanship with which the characters are portrayed makes it certain that your joy is never diminished.

I had the giggles for half an hour. See this movie!

Although some of the film was predictable, I fell in love with the characters and the story. What a great show, too bad it didn't make a theatrical release but well worth watching. Some stuff, you just wouldn't think James Earl Jones would do but very good.

I loved the twists,cultural turns, and surprises in this gem of a movie!

The acting, captured with light and camera placement, brings sensitive, perceptive, directing and story telling thru the removal of a third wall point of view.

In reading your biography of Charles Burnett's career and influences, it is easy to see French film maker Renoir in the compositions of light and dark which Renoir said came to him as if thru a DNA with his Father painter Renoir that he did not realize until much later in his life thru recognizing choices he made in filming.... I loved this movie!

I do think it might be wise to remove in the description of the film that Lynn Redgrave plays a former house wife!

One who has carefully and sensitively listened to the script and her character will hear that her character must be listened to and observed as the movie and it's story unfold It requires listening...much like an August Wilson Play.

In fact James Earl Jones, Lynn Redgrave and even the super numeraties in this movie as well as the plants practice listening on many levels.

Not until the end do we know what has happened all along and at the end.

Such a marvelous film that kept me in the edge of my seat with laughter tears and suspense.

This is by far the best small budget picture this year, if not ever. This movie will win awards, the players will receive nominations. I cannot possibly say enough about this picture. Redgrave was perfect. Margot Kidder, unbelievable... what a casting job. She alone is worth the 12 dollars. James Earl Jones wrestling nothing, falling on the floor...even his Jamaican accent was believable. What dialogue! What a script. From start to finish this one is a masterpiece.

A love story about two people (James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave) who end up in the same boarding house (run by Margot Kidder in one of her best performances ever), after being rejected by society and the people whom they have counted on for support. As they fall in love they have to deal with the unusual ways that each of them have created purpose for themselves--the very reasons society has rejected them--while also facing their prejudices about age, race, and sex.

I saw this film at the 2000 USA Film Festival and thoroughly enjoyed it. All the performances are first-rate, as is the cinematography, the script and the music.

This film is unlikely to get wide distribution, due to the fact that it does not feature wet teenagers or loud rock-and-roll, but if you do get the opportunity to see it, do. You'll be glad you did.