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.

199189 min5.9 / 10

A lighthearted, absurdist farce that mines comedy from mistaken identity, religious iconography, and romantic entanglement.

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.

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