The Annihilation of Fish is a 1999 American romance film directed by Charles Burnett and starring Lynn Redgrave, James Earl Jones and Margot Kidder.

[2][3][4] Wistful and lonely Flower 'Poinsettia' Cummings is freshly out of a relationship with the dead composer Giacomo Puccini, while Jamaican immigrant Obadiah 'Fish' Johnson has just been released from a mental institution that cannot cure him of the antagonistic demon that follows him wherever he goes.

"[3] Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote, "It’s hard to imagine what the filmmakers were thinking when they put this project together, in that it’s a picture about two oldsters with very little forward momentum, no subplots and the barest of production values.

Aching memories, unhealed bruises and pent-up desires remain alive even when many of the sights and sounds that once decorated one's existence are dormant.

For James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave, two actors who were already in the autumn of their lives when the film was initially released a quarter century ago, age appears to have been an especially potent subject.