Waiting for Guffman

1996

Action / Comedy

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715.4 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
R
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
P/S 0 / 3
1.34 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
R
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
P/S 0 / 17

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg10 / 10

Parts of life are just plain existentially hokey.

In what begin Christopher Guest's unofficial mockumentary trilogy (to be followed by "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind"),the small town of Blaine, Missouri, puts on a hokey play about the history of their town, hoping that an agent will come and make them famous. "Waiting for Guffman" overall shows that life is what one makes it; no one is going to change it for us.

Of course, in the process of showing this, they come up with some pretty funny stuff. We get to know the characters and their quirks (and believe you me, there are some whacked out quirks). Guest assembles his usual co-stars Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, but there's also Larry Miller, Fred Willard, Parker Posey, and Bob Balaban. A really neat movie.

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle8 / 10

Wonderful improvisational comedy

It's the sesquicentennial celebration for the small town of Blaine, Missouri. Former New Yorker Corky St.Clair (Christopher Guest) is putting on an amateur theater production of the town history using the wacky locals as the cast. Then Corky tells them about a Broadway theater critic Mort Guffman who is coming to see the opening of the show and jumps to the possibility of the show going to Broadway. Everybody starts dreaming big.

After Spinal Tap, Christopher Guest finally produce something just as funny in the improvisational genre. He has gathered around him an overwhelming comedic cast. The town folks are all horrible actors but I fall for them because they are just so sincere. There is a lovable charm about them. It's not about big slapstick gags. They do get some big laughs although different people will laugh at different things. It's about the actors finding humor in their characters' humanity and oddity.

Reviewed by gavin69427 / 10

The Forgotten One?

An aspiring director (Christopher Guest) 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.

Despite the incredibly cast (especially Parker Posey),this is not a film people usually talk about. In the same vein and from some of the same people, you hear a lot about "Spinal tap" and to a lesser extent "Best in Show". How did this one quietly fade away? I guess Meryl Streep loves it, so that's good.

This film seems like the precursor to "Parks and Rec". Not the first fake documentary, but the focus on a small town and its inhabitants seems familiar. Even more than "The Office", this seems to have the elements that made "Parks and Rec" great.

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