| Dead Fish | |
| Director: | Charley Stadler |
| Producer: | David Bergstein Dan Maag Matthias Deyle Philip Schulz-Deyle |
| Story: | Thomas Geiger Charley Stadler |
| Starring: | Robert Carlyle Gary Oldman Andrew Lee Potts |
| Music: | Andy Cato |
| Cinematography: | Fraser Taggart |
| Distributor: | Image Entertainment |
| Runtime: | 98 minutes |
| Country: | Germany |
| Language: | English |
Dead Fish is a 2004 English-language German action comedy film starring Robert Carlyle, Gary Oldman, Andrew-Lee Potts and Elena Anaya.[1] [2]
Lynch (Gary Oldman), an emotionless food connoisseur, stops a thief who stole a phone from Mimi (Elena Anaya) in a railway station. Falling in for her instantly, he doesn't notice that she accidentally switched phones with him. She later gives Lynch's phone to her boyfriend, Abe Klein (Andrew-Lee Potts) who works as a locksmith. When Lynch's employers try to assign him another assassination over the phone, Abe and his pot-smoking slacker artist friend go to warn the victim, Mr. Fish (Terence Stamp), hoping for a reward.
Concerned by Abe's behaviour over the phone, the employer has another operative, Virgil (Billy Zane), who hasn't met Lynch in person, to check up on him. Virgil has a Czech killer, Dragan (Karel Roden), brought in to deal with "Lynch".
All the while, Danny Devine (Robert Carlyle), a foul-tempered, foul-mouthed loan shark, is driving around trying to collect from various deadbeat clients including Abe.[3]