Waiting for Guffman (1996)
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.
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Waiting for Guffman (1996)
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Released Year: 1996
Runtime: 84 minutes
Directors: Christopher Guest
Writers: Eugene Levy, Christopher Guest
Casts: 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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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.
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Entertainment Weekly -
A madcap gem.
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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.
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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]
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ReelViews -
Thirty minutes into Waiting for Guffman, my stomach hurt from laughing.
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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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