
Mel is a musician in Manhattan, with plenty of one-night stands but no steady companion, except for his goldfish. He decides to move in with his current girlfriend, so he sublets his flat to Ginger, an English biologist new in town. The day he moves out, he flips for the bride at a wedding where he's playing, breaks up with his girlfriend, and moves back into his flat, negotiating with Ginger to her temporary flatmate. Meanwhile, he pursues Diana, the bride, working as the el... (Full plot summary below)
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Mel is a musician in Manhattan, with plenty of one-night stands but no steady companion, except for his goldfish. He decides to move in with his current girlfriend, so he sublets his flat to Ginger, an English biologist new in town. The day he moves out, he flips for the bride at a wedding where he's playing, breaks up with his girlfriend, and moves back into his flat, negotiating with Ginger to her temporary flatmate. Meanwhile, he pursues Diana, the bride, working as the elevator operator in her building while he and Ginger develop a friendship as she does research on his fish. One of her lab frogs and his fish develop an attraction: is this a harbinger of opposites attracting?
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| WaffleMovies.comWillie WaffleClaudia Myers fills the movie with the rhythms, jokes and turning points of a sit-com or romantic comedy, making Kettle of Fish a delightful, funny, comfortable diversion |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghIt's a sorry state of affairs when a goldfish and a frog (Ginger's prize specimen, unsubtly named Casanova) have more chemistry than a romantic comedy's human leads. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonKettle of Fish, starring Matthew Modine as a commitment-skittish saxophone player, is a warm-spirited romantic comedy, but it tends to have a squawky pitch. |
| VarietyRonnie ScheibPic contains its share of viable gags and stars generate a certain degree of convincing chemistry. But eventually, the seams in personality design and artificially stitched-together script construction begin to show. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrThe result is movie goulash: made with love, impossible to digest. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanWriter-director Claudia Myers' clunky debut feature makes the case that first-timers should probably focus on either writing or directing. |
| CinematicalKarina LongworthIt has its charms, and to those generally susceptible to well-done examples of genre, it'll probably be a delight. |
| Greenwich Village GazetteEric LurioThere is one truly great scene in this here movie and I'm not too sure if sitting through the awful-to-mediocre crap that precedes and follows it is actually worth the trouble. |
| New York PostLou LumenickYou gotta give credit to any first-time direc tor who attempts an homage to classic screwball comedies on a shoestring budget, even if Kettle of Fish ends up not exactly being the catch of the week. |
| User ReviewMark SSO SWEET! Just don't be cynical, okay! Just watch it and enjoy it! If you dont like chick flicks, then dont watch it! It is sweet, so if you do, then WATCH IT!:) |