Review – Waiting for Guffman

Unless I’m forgetting something somewhere, this is the last movie I actually saw twice in a movie theater. Christopher Guest (who also directed and co-wrote) stars as a flamboyant dramaturge relocated from off-Broadway to way-off-Broadway in small town Missouri. This is neither the first nor the last time Guest has used the fakeumentary format, and he employs it here to great effect to tell the tale of a group of earnest but inept thespians staging the town’s sesquicentennial pageant. Though the overall story never rises much beyond the level of silly farce, a few of the jokes are absolutely priceless. Good acting and fairly even pace help a lot, too. The disc comes with some good extras, including several deleted scenes that fill in a few gaps in the plot. Buy the disc