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Waiting for Guffman
from Turner Home Ent
starring Lewis Arquette, Bob Balaban, David Cross (II), Paul Dooley, Brian Doyle-Murray

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A must-have for mocumentarians.
  Great movie which basically does for community theater what Spinal Tap did to rock and roll.
  Not quite as well done as Best in Show or a Mighty Wind, but still a classic.

• Waiting for Guffman
  "Waiting for Guffman" is Christopher Guest's hilarious faux documentary about community theater in the small little town of Blaine, Missouri. Guest himself plays Corky St Clair (recently of New York) who brings such classic hits as "Backdraft" to the stage, much to the consternation of the local fire department. Now Blaine wants to direct a production to celebrate its sesquicentennial. Corky makes it into a musical called "Red, White, and Blaine" and casts a motley troupe of local eccentrics much to the... more info

• Superb off beat comedy
  This is a fine comedy movie from the Spinal Tap people. There are great one liners and a terrific cast. This is a small gem, a wonderful film.

• Masterful and Very Funny
  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... more info

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