Waiting for Guffman (1996)
A town of Blaine, Missouri is preparing for celebrations of its 150th anniversary. Corky St.Clair, an off-off-off-off-off-Broadway director is putting together an amateur theater show about the town's history, starring a local dentist, a couple of travel agents, a Dairy Queen waitress, and a car repairman. He invites a Broadway theater critic Mr. Guffman to see the opening night of the show.
Cast and Information
Directed By: Christopher Guest
Written By: Eugene Levy, Christopher Guest
Starring: David Cross, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban, Parker Posey, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, Brian Doyle-Murray, Larry Miller, Michael Hitchcock, Don Lake
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Waiting for Guffman belongs to 18 collections
1. Features under 91 minutes (collaborative: moderated by epiphany - 56 stars)
2. Gay-Themed Films (Male) (collaborative: moderated by bobyang - 20 stars)
3. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (collaborative: moderated by Cinephile - 19 stars)
4. Feel Good Movies (collaborative: moderated by Midaso - 17 stars)
5. Edgar Wright 1000 Favorite Movies (Aug 2016) (collaborative: moderated by Aron Ericson - 17 stars)
6. Mockumentary (collaborative - 12 stars)
7. Director/star combination (collaborative: moderated by djross - 5 stars)
8. Ensemble Cast (collaborative: moderated by Dorkovsky - 3 stars)
9. Theater (collaborative: moderated by doganay - 2 stars)
10. Sight and Sound 2002 (Single Vote) (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 1 star)
11. Unscripted and Improvised (collaborative: moderated by TychoCelchuu - 1 star)
12. Movies I Must See (public: gagknee - 1 star)
13. Setting: countryside, small town (collaborative: moderated by tipar)
14. 1996: Year in Review (public: polanski28)
15. Filmspotting Ratings Project: Week 11 (public: PeaceAnarchy)
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BillyShears | 100 98th |
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It's a Zen thing, like how many babies fit in the tire.
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caiman | 88 87th |
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Still Christopher Guest's funniest movie. The characters feel so real and true to life (I'm from Missouri, which might help me relate to them a little). And it's this reality that makes the movie so damn funny. The ineptitude and sincerity with which these goofy people produce the play is just so satisfying to watch, and the final product is a sight to behold. Hilarious.
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Bown | 71 26th |
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Not bad, but Guest's whole "hahahhaa camp lispy like he's gay! LOL" character really brought it down. Also I saw it less than a week ago and remember almost nothing about it.
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Magb | 80 61st |
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The charming thing about this movie is that the show they ended up putting on really wasn't that bad. Hell, some of the parts were genuinely good. The film doesn't offer many surprises, and I saw the end coming from a mile away, but that's okay. The humor here comes from the characters, and the plot is secondary. Highly enjoyable.
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jimmynmu | 80 74th |
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Funny, fairly memorable, pretty much exactly what you would expect from a Levy and Guest film.
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Moribunny | 10 4th |
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Unfunny and tedious.
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| 1 | Malignant | 98 99th |
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The best of All The christopher guest movies I've seen.
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Pickpocket | 9 93rd |
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Really funny. I love the attention to detail and I love this group of actors and all the pathetic characters they played. This is probably my favorite Guest mockumentary, it was just so great. Parker Posey is great again and I really liked Eugene Levy's part in the film.
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twincinema | 80 75th |
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The worse version of this film would be mean-spirited. It is a parody, but it still feels sensitive to its characters. Fred Willard doing his impressions wins the "funniest moment in this film" award. There were a lot of contenders.
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Barthalen | 80 81st |
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The first half got the most laughs out of me, the second half isn't as hilarious but still really cute and charming. The entire film just has a sense of fun to it that really cheered up my evening. Wonderful cast and some amusing cameos to boot.
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begoniabol | 93 97th |
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Haha this movie was so funny. I laughed so many times. The music is so cheesy and the show is hilarious. So friggin awesome. A movie I will definitely watch again and again and again
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spleen | 81 73rd |
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My least favorite of Guest's mockumentaries. Nothing too engaging here for me but still better than most things labeled "Comedy" today.
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| 1 | shevinwhite | 100 97th |
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Favorite of all time.
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glumpy_99 | 86 75th |
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A charmingly droll, low-key delight which finds Guest (and Levy) walking the tightrope between acrid satire and compassion for their cast of self-obsessed eccentrics cast to utter perfection, even down to the nominal co-stars; Doyle-Murray manages to steal a scene using pretty much utter silence! Its very small scale and limited focus means that it strains a little at times to justify feature length, but its such a sweet natured effort at heart that it proves difficult to resist.
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JSchlansky | 76 69th |
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Takes on the monumental challenge of trying to make community theater seem interesting
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| Average Percentile 62.34% from 1510 Ratings |  |