| WAITING FOR GUFFMAN |
 1996
- USADirector: Christopher
Guest - Reviewed by Kerri 
Unfortunately, I saw Best in Show before I saw this, which made this
movie somewhat a disappointment. I didn't find the characters as quirky,
nor the dialogue as funny, and was it really necessary to sit through the
entire play? However, this movie does rate high on the comedy scale
because it is a departure from the normal cookie-cutter plot, and
Christopher Guest steals the show.
The town of Blaine, Missouri is your typical middle-America humdrum town where the citizens are not too bright and nothing much happens. In preparation for the town's 150th Anniversary, the Off Broadway-experienced drama teacher (Guest) has created a play and some of the townsfolk audition for it: the Dairy Queen gal (Parker Posey), the Jewish dentist (Eugene Levy), the travel agent couple who have never left Blaine (Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara). The play they put on is as ridiculous as their audition pieces, but to this little town they are brilliant. For some reason the cast thinks a New York Broadway producer (Mr. Guffman) is going to come and then put their show on Broadway. The meat of the film is the group rehearsing and waiting for Guffman to come rescue them from their boring, pathetic lives. A good half-hour of the film is wasted on the actual play itself, something so excruciating I found myself clawing at the fast-forward button on the remote. Anyone's who sat through a community theatre or high-school play will either find this painful or hilarious.I have never acted a day in my life so perhaps to those with a drama background this film will illicit a few more chuckles. To me, it was just a stepping-stone to a much better film (Best in Show). |
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