When the town of Blaine, Missouri approaches its sesquicentennial, there’s only one way to celebrate: with a musical revue called “Red, White and Blaine.” Hoping the show will be his ticket back to Broadway, impresario Corky St. Clair (Christopher Guest) rounds up a cast of enthusiastic but untalented locals (Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O’Hara, and Parker Posey) to perform his masterwork; and when Corky reveals that theater agent Mort Guffman will attend the opening, things really kick into high gear.
Waiting for Guffman
This film is part of the Small Town, Big Dreams series.
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Waiting for Guffman
1996. 84 m. Chirstopher Guest. Park Circus. US. English. Rated R.
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
"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."
"The nonstop amusing mockumentary Waiting for Guffman does to small-town acting troupes what "This Is Spinal Tap did to heavy-metal bands."
This film is part of the Small Town, Big Dreams series.
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