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 enlarge | Actors: Lewis Arquette, Bob Balaban, David Cross (ii), Paul Dooley, Brian Doyle-murray
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
Buy Used: $7.97
You Save: $12.01 (60%)
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Rating:  372 reviews
Sales Rank: 2568
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 84
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.5
MPN: WARDC2526D
ISBN: 0780633423
UPC: 053939252620
EAN: 9780780633421
ASIN: B00005LC5D
Theatrical Release Date: January 31, 1997
Release Date: August 21, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Disc shows some wear but plays fine. Case shows wear with crack/missing plastic on inside holder. Great DVD at a great price!!!
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 BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME March 24, 2008
If you are a community theatre person, have done any high school theatre, or even seen any community theatre productions then this is the film for you. Christopher Guest steals the show as always!
 It Was Alright March 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'll start off by saying that I love and own This is Spinal Tap. I also thought that Best in Show was really funny and that A Mighty Wind was worthy of a rental. But this Christopher Guest movie just didn't live up to my expectations, which were based on other reviews that called this movie Guest's best. Well, it's not. It's got a few moments in it that made me laugh, but overall the movie was filled with too much boring stuff. Usually these movies will have plenty to laugh about, and there will be an occasional joke that doesn't work well.
But in Waiting for Guffman, there's too much that doesn't even seem to try to be funny. Instead it paints a picture of how boring these characters are, which would work if it were made to be funny, but it isn't. This movie seemed like a good premise for a movie that could have had a lot of funny bits in it, but it didn't take advantage of that.
Excellent movie! February 6, 2008
I had first watched Best in a Show and a friend recommended this one. I loved it. It is excellent and I would suggest it for anyone who loved his other work.
'Guffman' is Guest at his Best. January 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Christopher Guest is best known for having written, directed and starred in several heavily improvised "mockumentary" films including This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, and Best in Show, of which Waiting for Guffman is my personal favorite. Each of these films shares a similar plot development leading up to some kind of a much-anticipated performance. Guest and Eugene Levy frequently collaborate as writers, and Guest leads the same repertory troupe of actors from one film to the next including Guest, Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, and Bob Balaban.
Waiting for Guffman is a parody of community theater that takes it title perhaps from Beckett's Waiting for Godot. (Waiting for Godot is an existentialist play in which the characters wait for Godot, a character who never arrives.) Set in small town America (Blaine, Missouri to be exact), it follows a handful of self-deluded residents as they rehearse to put on a community theater musical entitled "Red, White and Blaine." Guest plays the show's flamboyant (as in gay) director, Corky St. Clair, a "relocated" Broadway director. He promises the troupe that a positive review from Broadway producer Mort Guffman could mean a Broadway run for the cast. Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard play the parts of Ron and Sheila Albertson, a pair of married travel agents and amateur performers. Parker Posey plays the delicious Dairy Queen employee Libby Mae Brown. Bob Balaban plays Lloyd Miller, the frustrated high-school music teacher and musical director. Lewis Arquette plays Clifford Wooley, a retired taxidermist. Matt Keeslar plays the handsome and oblivious mechanic, Johnny Savage, for whom Corky has a special interest, Levy plays a dentist, Dr. Alan Pearl. Waiting for Guffman is a true laugh-fest, and don't miss the closing credits.
G. Merritt
Genius...for those that like dry humor! January 7, 2008
This is one of my favorite movies. Christopher Guest is a brilliant writer and director. Fits my sense of humor perfectly. My family saw "Mighty Wind" in the theater a few years back and couldn't stop laughing and sharing lines from the movie. We went looking for his other movies and now can't decide which is the best. My college-age son asked for this video for Christmas and I decided Santa would get me one, too! My parents don't get this movie at all, so I know this kind of humor isn't for everyone, but it works for us!
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