{{for|the Brazilian band|Dead Fish (band)}} {{Tone|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Dead Fish | image = Dead Fish dvd cover.jpg | alt = | caption = DVD cover | director = Charley Stadler | producer = David Bergstein <br> Dan Maag <br> Matthias Deyle <br> Philip Schulz-Deyle | writer = Adam Kreutner<br>David Mitchell | screenplay = | story = Thomas Geiger<br>Charley Stadler | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} --> | narrator = | starring = Robert Carlyle<br>Gary Oldman<br>Andrew Lee Potts | music = Andy Cato | cinematography = Fraser Taggart | editing = | studio = | distributor = Image Entertainment | released = {{Film date|2004|df=y|ref1=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Image_Entertainment/Disc_Announcements/UK_Cult_Fave_Dead_Fish_Bound_for_Blu-ray_HD_DVD_UPDATED/1178|title=UK Cult Fave 'Dead Fish' Bound for Blu-ray, HD DVD (UPDATED) - High-Def Digest|work=www.highdefdigest.com|accessdate=2 July 2020}}</ref>}} | runtime = 98 minutes | country = Germany | language = English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Dead Fish''''' is a 2004 English-language German action comedy film starring Robert Carlyle, Gary Oldman, Andrew-Lee Potts and Elena Anaya.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cineuropa.org/f.aspx?t=film&l=en&did=46784|title=DEAD FISH by Charley Stadler|publisher=cineuropa.org|accessdate=2015-02-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://frenchfilmsite.com/review/2004-D/Dead_Fish.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150220101521/http://frenchfilmsite.com/review/2004-D/Dead_Fish.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-02-20 |title=DEAD FISH by Charley Stadler |publisher=frenchfilmsite.com |accessdate=2015-02-20 }}</ref>
==Plot== 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fame.uk.com/docs/press/Gary_Oldman_to_star_in_Dead_Fish.pdf|title=Gary Oldman to star in Dead Fish|publisher=fame.uk.com|accessdate=2015-02-20|archive-date=2015-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220132142/http://fame.uk.com/docs/press/Gary_Oldman_to_star_in_Dead_Fish.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Cast== * Robert Carlyle as Danny Devine * Cassandra Bell as "Sugar" Waters * Gary Oldman as Lynch * John Pearson as Deck Day * Kevin McNally as Frank Rosenheim * Elena Anaya as Mimi * Andrew Lee Potts as Abe Klein * Billy Zane as Virgil * Karel Roden as Dragan * Terence Stamp as Mr. Fish * Iddo Goldberg as Thief * Jimi Mistry as Salvador E. Johnson * Sebastian Knapp as Megakey Guy
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0379240}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|1191011-dead_fish}} * ''[http://www.hollywood.com/movie/Dead_Fish/421244 Dead Fish]'' at Hollywood.com
Category:2004 films Category:2004 action comedy films Category:2004 crime comedy films Category:English-language German films Category:British action comedy films Category:British crime comedy films Category:Films about kidnapping Category:Films about contract killing Category:Films about mobile phones Category:2004 English-language films Category:2004 British films Category:English-language crime comedy films Category:English-language action comedy films