This 1997 comedy may be amusing if you feel a pressing need to feel superior to somebody, but the aim is too broad and scattershot to add up to much beyond an acknowledgment of small-town desperation.
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08/12/08
Waiting for Guffman (1997)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:9
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
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
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Top CriticA madcap gem.
02/27/07
Top CriticWhere This Is Spinal Tap took rock music and the media as its focus - fat, juicy targets just asking to be lampooned - Guest's target here is small-town provincials.
05/14/04
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04/21/03
Top CriticA very funny, very unusual ensemble comedy that falls somewhere between slapdash and brilliant, an improvised comedy with more hits than misses.
04/12/02
Top CriticPriceless.
05/11/01
Top CriticA sly and gleeful comedy showcase that pokes clever fun at the American musical, amateur theatricals and anything else that's not nailed down.
02/14/01
Top CriticThere 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 CriticAttention is paid not simply to funny characters and punch lines, but to small nudges at human nature.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe originality and audacity of the film, written by Guest and Levy, is what holds us. They never lose the conceit that the documentary filmmakers, and not themselves, are the ones who made this movie.
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