Movie a day #358 - Waiting for Guffman

[jenna2891]

i guess i just assumed that this one had been taken already. it's a travesty that it's taken 357 other movies to get here. the best of the guest movies, in my opinion. the summer between my junior and senior year of h.s. i watched this, rushmore or bottle rocket almost every day.

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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 Thomas

 

[thirty-two]

My roommates sophomore year were in love with this movie.

"I hate you and your assface!" (or was that best in show?)

I dont think I've seen this movie in it's entirety, as I kept falling asleep when watching it (oops), but I'll have to give it another go-round sometime soon.

 

[jenna2891]

My roommates sophomore year were in love with this movie.

"I hate you and your assface!" (or was that best in show?)

I dont think I've seen this movie in it's entirety, as I kept falling asleep when watching it (oops), but I'll have to give it another go-round sometime soon.

no, that was guffman. it's when johnny savage calls up the day of the show to say he can't be in it. corky yells that at him.


oh, and for falling asleep during it.

 

[Bada0Bing]

This movie was very silly. I just watched it about a year ago for the first time. I then had to watch Best in Show and A Mighty Wind. These are very funny movies. However, I think you need to be in the right mood to totally enjoy them.

 

[thirty-two]

However, I think you need to be in the right mood to totally enjoy them.

Exactly! See, Jenna!?

 

[jenna2891]

However, I think you need to be in the right mood to totally enjoy them.

, although not as hard as kate's since you actually stayed awake.

 

[Dback Jon]

Loved this movie (along with Best in Show and A Mighty Wind).

Parker Posey, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara - all awesome!