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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.
Usage examples of "shooting fish".
Maybe nailing her again would have been too much like shooting fish in a barrel.
Then when you have them all together, it will be like shooting fish in a pond.
Should they come after us and the weather clears, then it'll be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Yet much of the battle had seemed like little more than shooting fish in a barrel.
But the best part of all is that the young ones all work, and they have single girl friends who show up for dinner, and sometimes it's just like shooting fish in a barrel.
A scalie's skull at the same distance was like shooting fish in a barrel for her.
But attacking from the ground to a chopper is much like shooting fish in a barrel.