The Annihilation of Fish
1999 · 1h 42m · Comedy, Drama, Romance · United States of America
A Crazy Love Story.
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.
Directed by
Charles BurnettWritten by
Anthony C. Winkler6.1Smart score
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aging managing womanboarding houseboarding house ownereccentricityelderly couplehollywood, californiaimaginary friendinterracial relationshipinterracial romancelonelinessromance of two elderly peoplerooming house
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