Shooting Fish

Shooting Fish
Promotional poster
Directed byStefan Schwartz
Written by
Produced by
  • Richard Holmes
  • Glynis Murray
Starring
CinematographyHenry Braham
Edited byAlan Strachan
Music byStanislas Syrewicz
Production
companies
Distributed byEntertainment Film Distributors
Release dates
  • 22 August 1997 (1997-08-22) (Norway)
  • 17 October 1997 (1997-10-17) (United Kingdom)
Running time
112 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£2.135 million[2]
Box office£4 million[2]

Shooting Fish is a 1997 British romantic crime comedy film directed by Stefan Schwartz and co-written with Richard Holmes, starring Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend as two con men with Kate Beckinsale as their unwilling assistant. The film was produced by Winchester Films and partly funded by National Lottery money administered through the UK Arts Council. Shooting Fish aimed to transfer well to international markets that were keen on British films following the success of Four Weddings and a Funeral.

The film was released in the United Kingdom on 17 October 1997 and in the United States on 1 May 1998.

  1. ^ "SHOOTING FISH (12)". British Board of Film Classification. 9 July 1997. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  2. ^ a b Alexander Walker, Icons in the Fire: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everyone in the British Film Industry 1984-2000, Orion Books, 2005 p273