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Waiting for Guffman (1997)
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The amateur company preparing a town-anniversary musical has ambition far beyond its resources, a mismatch that does not require theatre expertise to recognise. Christopher Guest lets interviews and rehearsals expose the distance between self-image and performance. The comedy is most durable when it allows the longing for a bigger life to show through the incompetence. Corky's broad camp characterisation can feel dated, so the appeal rests on the whole ensemble and the wonderfully disproportionate hopes invested in opening night.
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About Waiting for Guffman
Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.