Waiting for Guffman
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Synopsis
An aspiring director and the marginally talented amateur cast of a hokey small-town Missouri musical production go overboard when they learn that someone from Broadway will be in attendance.
Cast
- Deborah Theaker
- Michael Hitchcock
- Scott Williamson
- Larry Miller
- Don Lake
- Christopher Guest
- Fred Willard
- Catherine O'Hara
- Parker Posey
- David Cross
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- Apr 12, 2020
parker posey bbq’ing a single unseasoned chicken wing made me lose it
NicoAug 26, 2020CORKY WE LOVE YOU WE WANT YOU TO LIVE
Laura Parker-SaladinoJul 8, 2020Hamilton? Sorry I only know “Red, White and Blaine”
Karsten - May 17, 2018
"i always have a place at the dairy queen"
LucyJun 5, 2015An amazing detail I never noticed before: Before the "Nothing Ever Happens On Mars" number, Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard's married couple are backstage, her painstakingly fixing his hair for him as he fusses over the details, after which he tells her "now you can fix…
Steve SandbergJul 11, 2021everybody dance!
Karsten - Jul 7, 2021
stool boom
David SimsJan 30, 202685 Catherine O'Hara, the world isn't nearly as funny without you. We'll miss you forever.
SilentDawnFeb 11, 2021the ire of Bob Balaban...... how is this orchestration so good?? HOW
fran hoepfner
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Metacritic
The movie doesn't bludgeon us with gags. It proceeds with a certain comic relentlessness from setup to payoff, and its deliberation is part of the fun.
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
A madcap gem.
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
Yet Waiting for Guffman is never mean-spirited. Its weird warmth is perfectly embodied by Guest himself, whose flamboyant, stagestruck choreographer, Corky St. Clair, could have (in less ingenious hands) been a cruel, gay-bashing caricature, but instead becomes a hallucinatory Everyman.
F. X. Feeney
L.A. Weekly
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