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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Turner Home Ent
Salesrank: 1068
Released: August 21, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/03/2004 Run time: 84 minutes Rating: R
Description of Waiting for Guffman:
One of the funniest films in many a moon was hiding at art house theaters in 1998. Former Saturday Night Live comedian and Spinal Tap member Christopher Guest creates the ultimate parody of small-town dramatics, Waiting for Guffman. Corky St. Claire (Guest), an overwhelming drama director hiding out in Blaine, Missouri, thinks he has found the vehicle to put him back on Broadway: the city's 150th anniversary play, Red, White, and Blaine. As rehearsals start, we learn of the town's history ("the stool capital of the world") including a brush with a UFO. The mockumentary follows the various townsfolk wishing for stardom: Parker Posey as a Dairy Queen clerk, Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard as stage-struck travel agents, Matthew Keeslar as the town's bad boy, and Eugene Levy (who cowrote the film with Guest) as a dentist who dreams of glory on the stage. The film is a hoot from beginning to end, and be sure to watch the closing credits. Fans of Guest's deft dry humor should not miss his other parody of the entertainment world, The Big Picture (Kevin Bacon as a student filmmaker who goes to Hollywood). --Doug Thomas
Waiting for Guffman Reviews:
A Real Knee Slapper 
2009-08-12 - This is one of the funniest movies I have ever viewed and I feel anyone with the least sense of humor would agree with me. Christopher Guest never disappoints in his movies and Waiting For Guffman has to be my favorite of any I have seen. I enjoy his docucomedy style whice puts an even funnier spin on hilarious subject matter, the fact that people in community theatre at times think they are Broadway's next big thing. This movie is great and I urge everyone to watch it
Not The Best of Christopher Guest, but Very Funny 
2009-07-16 - I love Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, including Spinal Tap, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind, and this one was very funny as well. As usual, the characters are completely eccentric and strange, the plot simple but hilarious, and the humor dry. I thought the climax in which they perform this ridiculous play was the best part. Mockumentary lovers will find much to enjoy here.
Not popular with students from other countries 
2009-05-29 - I teach a class for international students about learning English through movies, and I included Waiting for Guffman this term because it's one of my favorite movies. However, although the students (young adults from Asia and Europe) liked most of the other movies, especially The Sixth Sense and Little Miss Sunshine, they all HATED Waiting for Guffman. This review by a student from Belgium summed up the students' feelings:
This is the worst movie ever. It was the first time I fell asleep when I was watching a movie.
The actors are bad. My eight-year-old sister can act much better than these "comedians."
Moreover, I don't know what kind of humor people like today to declare this is the funniest movie ever. I guess I am different. I guess my humor is too complex. I guess my humor isn't an obvious humor.
I would like to be like all these people who liked this movie. I would like to laugh at these kinds of movies. This movie was so dull I couldn't even smile (except for in my dreams.)
Funniest Guest!
2009-05-04 - I wanted to own what I consider to be the funniest Christopher Guest movie.
It's great to show this to someone who has never seen anything done by this group of funny talented actors.
I'll only give this dvd up if it comes out in blu-ray.
One of the funniest films going.
2009-02-08 - Waiting for Guffman is absolutely uproarious. There are few films with quite as much humor, energy and spirit as this one. Watching it, you find yourself not only laughing at the characters, but really sympathizing with them and rooting for them.
This is one of the best comedies going.
