It keeps you laughing from beginning to end.
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03/16/04
Waiting for Guffman (1997)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:48
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: This riotously deadpan mockumentary about aspiring community theater performers never stoops to ridicule oft-ridiculous characters.
Runtime: 84 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This mock documentary, set in the fictional town of Blaine, Missouri, chronicles the attempts of its talent-free residents to put on a show celebrating the burg's 150th anniversary. From the fey... [More]
Starring: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Parker Posey, Catherine O'Hara
Director: Christopher Guest
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Reviews for Waiting for Guffman
The comedy has the slow burn of a richly nuanced and non-judgmental character study.
01/26/06
No review available.
12/21/04
One of the funniest movies ever made, 'Waiting for Guffman' spoofs everything from documentaries and talent shows to local politics and alien abductions.
06/10/07
No review available.
08/22/03
Guest has fashioned the film with a great deal of affection. The charm goes a long way toward making the material amusing instead of insulting.
01/01/00
Bizarre.
08/21/01
No review available.
09/29/05
Fans of this kind of deadpan humor are guaranteed to get a few chuckles out of this one. All of the actors are marvelously horrible, and in this movie, bad equals good.
01/01/00
Raucous, outrageously funny, and filled with many zany scenes.
09/25/07
It’s smart, witty, goofy and hugely entertaining.
09/26/02
Be sure and stay for the film's closing credits, which contain some of the movie's funniest moments.
01/01/00
No review available.
06/17/05
A sly, gleeful and subtle comedy that pokes fun at American musicals, amateur theatricals, and the culture of celebrity-the universal wish to be famous--set in the small, provincial town of Blaine about to celebrate its 150th anniversary.
09/19/06
No review available.
07/11/03
Though each of the actors generates moments of hilarity, Guest's Corky St. Clair is clearly the film's most memorable character.
01/01/00
No review available.
03/17/04
There is such a thing as comic momentum, and Guest has a good sense of what that means. Comic momentum doesn't refer to nonstop jokes, but to an atmosphere that is always ripe for humor.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe humor is implied but never over-explained, imparting a sense of intelligence rarely achieved in movie comedies.
05/14/03
No review available.
08/15/02
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