The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

The catch of the day is fresh comedy.

1991 · 89 min · ★ 5.9 · Comedy, Romance

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.

Directed by Ben Lewin · Written by Ben Lewin

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