Storyline
Corky St. Clair is a director, actor and dancer in Blaine, Missouri. When it comes time to celebrate Blaine's 150th anniversary, Corky resolves to bring down the house in Broadway style.
Directors
Writers
Cast
David Cross, Fred Willard, Larry Miller, Eugene Levy, Parker Posey, Paul Dooley, Michael Hitchcock, Catherine O'Hara, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Doyle-Murray, Lewis Arquette, Kathy Lamkin, Margaret Bowman, Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest, Deborah Theaker, Matt Keeslar, Don Lake, Paul Benedict, Scott Williamson
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Reviews
100
Entertainment Weekly
A madcap gem.
90
L.A. Weekly
Yet Waiting for Guffman is never mean-spirited. Its weird warmth is perfectly embodied by Guest himself, whose flamboyant, stagestruck choreographer, Corky St. Clair, could have (in less ingenious hands) been a cruel, gay-bashing caricature, but instead becomes a hallucinatory Everyman.
90
Newsweek
The movie is, from start to finish, a hoot... Both a savvy satire of smalltown boosterism and an affectionate salute to the performing spirit. [10 Feb 1987, p.66]
88
ReelViews
Thirty minutes into Waiting for Guffman, my stomach hurt from laughing.
80
The New York Times
The don't quite do for "Oklahoma!" what they did for heavy metal, but they come close. [31 Jan 1997, p.C6]
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