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Waiting for Guffman Director: Christopher Guest Cast: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara

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  • DVD Release Date: 08/21/2001
  • Original Release: 1996
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 15,728

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Audio Commentary by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy; 30-plus minutes of deleted scenes with optional audio commentary; original theatrical trailer

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Scene Index

Side #1 --
0. Scene Selections
1. Sesquicentennial plans. [2:03]
2. Blaine lore. [3:24]
3. Alien encounters. [3:35]
4. Dr. Pearl. [1:50]
5. The auditions. [6:09]
6. Talent roster. [2:51]
7. The first rehearsal. [2:46]
8. Actor shopping. [2:17]
9. Getting it perfect. [3:55]
10. Minor corrective surgery. [2:36]
11. Broadway bound? [3:58]
12. Corky quits. [2:26]
13. Reverberations. [4:04]
14. Accepting the challenge. [2:36]
15. Eyes don't have it. [1:38]
16. Dropout. [3:08]
17. Overture. [2:53]
18. Red, White and Blaine. [2:42]
19. Covered Wagons. [3:10]
20. Stool Boom. [2:12]
21. Intermission talk. [1:38]
22. A Penny for Your Thoughts. [3:05]
23. Nothing Ever Happens on Mars. [2:16]
24. Finale. [1:41]
25. Roy Loomis. [3:20]
26. 3 months later. [2:58]
27. New York City. [1:51]
28. End Credits. [6:22]
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Editorial Reviews

The city of Blaine, Missouri is celebrating its sesquicentennial, and what better reason could there be to put on a show? Corky St. Claire (Christopher Guest), current leader of Blaine's community theater group and creator of a stage musical version of Backdraft that led to the unfortunate destruction of the theater, has been commissioned to put together a musical about the city's noble history, "Red, White and Blaine," which stars a variety of the town's theatrical talent. Corky's cast includes Ron and Sheila Albertson (Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara), a pair of married travel agents that Corky calls "the Lunts of Blaine;" Allan Pearl (Eugene Levy), a dentist who insists that he wasn't the class clown in high school but did sit next to him; Libby Mae Brown (Parker Posey), a sweet young thing who lives for her job at the Dairy Queen; and Clifford Wooley (Lewis Arquette), an "Old Blainian" who makes gun racks from deer hooves. Somehow, Corky has persuaded a major theatrical producer in New York to send a representative to look at the show -- is it possible that "Red, White and Blaine" could be headed to Broadway? Christopher Guest directed and co-wrote this very funny mock-documentary, in addition to playing the flamboyant Corky; Guests's partners from This Is Spinal Tap, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, helped write the memorable songs for "Red, White and Blaine." Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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July 07, 2007: This is one of the funniest movies ever made! You can NOT watch this and not laugh out loud. Corky's dance? Classic goofy comedy! I had never thought much of Fred Willard before seeing him in Best in Show (the 1st Guest movie I saw). Since then, I have seen all of Mr. Guest's films, and I have come to see Mr. Willard as one of the funniest actors on film. I know these films are greatly improvisational, and that makes it even more brilliant - that these actors and actresses can pull it off like this is amazing! Smart of him to use the same group of actors in his films also. When your formula works, don't mess with it! Buy it, enjoy it, you will watch it over and over again. Money well spent!

The Skinny on Small Town Theatresby Anonymous

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December 27, 2006: Like Spinal Tap a generation before it, Waiting for Guffman is funny from start to last from caption to caption. I could relate to the histrionics of Corky, the unfortunate and let's say "flamboyant" music director played brilliantly by Christopher Guest and small-town theatre.


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