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The Annihilation of Fish

1999
Directed byCharles Burnett
1h 42m

A Jamaican widower recently released from a mental institution and a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giacomo Puccini become the unlikely tenants of an eccentric widow in Los Angeles.

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James Earl JonesFishLynn RedgravePoinsettiaMargot KidderMrs. Muldroone
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DramaRomanceComedy
STATUSReleased
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6.3

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