Product Description: A former big-city musical star gathers the residents of Blaine, Missouri together to create a production in hopes of being discovered. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: R Release Date: 3-FEB-2004 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: 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
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: ARQUETTE,LEWIS EAN: 9780780633421 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0780633423 Item Dimensions:20 Label: Turner Home Ent Languages:EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Surround Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent MPN: WARDC2526D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Turner Home Ent Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 21, 2001 Running Time: 84 minutes Studio: Turner Home Ent Theatrical Release Date: January 31, 1997
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Ordered this with two other movies - selected "fewest shipments" option. Ordered Dec. 22nd and it came Dec. 30th - not bad over the Christmas Holiday. Came in one of the cheap cardboard cases, which you can't tell from the picture, but for the price it's not really surprising. Underrated movie, by the way, but I'm not rating the movie, I'm rating the vendor.