Waiting for Guffman

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Waiting for Guffman

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.

"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
"The nonstop amusing mockumentary Waiting for Guffman does to small-town acting troupes what "This Is Spinal Tap did to heavy-metal bands."
Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today

This film is part of the Small Town, Big Dreams series.



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