The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991)
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.
- Released
- 1991-05-01
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Ben Lewin, Ben Lewin
- TMDB rating
- 5.9/10 from 24 votes
Cast
- Bob Hoskins as Louis Aubinard
- Jeff Goldblum as Pianist
- Natasha Richardson as Sybil
- Michel Blanc as Norbert
- Jacques Villeret as Lingerie Man
- Jean-Pierre Cassel as Zalman
- Angela Pleasence as Louis' Sister
- Carlos Kloster as The Archbishop
- Claudine Mavros as Mother Superior
- Artus de Penguern as Saint Francis
- Martine Ferrière as Mother of Lingerie Man
- Sacha Vikouloff as The Violinist