The 1988 movie was directed by Charles Crichton and stars John Cleese as a lawyer, Archie, who meets Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis), a con artist who is trying to find out where her criminal associates stashed some diamonds. Wanda and her boyfriend Otto (Kevin Kline), believing that Archie knows where the diamonds are hidden because he is representing their criminal rival, involves him in their plans and Archie soon finds himself caught in the middle between the feuding thieves.
Cleese's real-life daughter, Cynthia Caylor, portrayed his onscreen daughter Portia.
