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.

Waiting for Guffman (1996)

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Released Year: 1996
Runtime: 84 minutes
Genre: Comedy, Music
Directors: Christopher Guest

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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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100
Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman
A madcap gem.
90
L.A. Weekly - F. X. Feeney
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 - David Ansen
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 - James Berardinelli
Thirty minutes into Waiting for Guffman, my stomach hurt from laughing.
80
The New York Times - Elvis Mitchell
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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