Waiting for Guffman
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Actor: Bob Balaban, Brian Doyle-Murray, David Cross (II), Lewis Arquette, Paul DooleyDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Movie Reviews of Waiting for Guffman
Movie Review: Masterful and Very Funny
Summary: 4 Stars
Just to get it out of the way, I've ordered THIS IS SPINAL TAP and I know nothing about BEST IN SHOW.
It's a very fine balancing act, making a fake documentary which isn't farce, which is internally consistent and which could be true, in which every line is delivered "straight," and which is still quite funny. We get the joke because the characters don't. To pull this off requires great writing and great acting.
This film manages that balancing act, and the result is a DVD that I'm glad to own because I'll enjoy it again.
Summary of Waiting for Guffman
One of the funniest films in many a moon was hiding at art house theaters in 1998. Former Saturday Night Live comedian and Spinal Tap member Christopher Guest creates the ultimate parody of small-town dramatics, Waiting for Guffman. Corky St. Claire (Guest), an overwhelming drama director hiding out in Blaine, Missouri, thinks he has found the vehicle to put him back on Broadway: the city's 150th anniversary play, Red, White, and Blaine. As rehearsals start, we learn of the town's history ("the stool capital of the world") including a brush with a UFO. The mockumentary follows the various townsfolk wishing for stardom: Parker Posey as a Dairy Queen clerk, Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard as stage-struck travel agents, Matthew Keeslar as the town's bad boy, and Eugene Levy (who cowrote the film with Guest) as a dentist who dreams of glory on the stage. The film is a hoot from beginning to end, and be sure to watch the closing credits. Fans of Guest's deft dry humor should not miss his other parody of the entertainment world, The Big Picture (Kevin Bacon as a student filmmaker who goes to Hollywood). --Doug ThomasArt House & International DVD Video
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