Rotten
This 1997 comedy may be amusing if you feel a pressing need to feel superior to somebody, but the aim is too broad and scattershot to add up to much beyond an acknowledgment of small-town desperation.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Waiting for Guffman
There's a good reason some talent remains undiscovered.
1996 · 1h 24m · R
Comedy, Music
Directed by
Christopher Guest
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Christopher Guest Director
- Christopher Guest as Corky St. Clair
- Eugene Levy as Dr. Allan Pearl
- Fred Willard as Ron Albertson
- Catherine O'Hara as Sheila Albertson
- Michael Hitchcock as Steve Stark
- Larry Miller as Glenn Welsch
- Parker Posey as Libby Mae Brown
- Bob Balaban as Lloyd Miller
- Don Lake as Phil Burgess
- David Cross as UFO Expert
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A madcap gem.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
Where This Is Spinal Tap took rock music and the media as its focus - fat, juicy targets just asking to be lampooned - Guest's target here is small-town provincials.
Daniel M. Kimmel, Variety
Fresh
A very funny, very unusual ensemble comedy that falls somewhere between slapdash and brilliant, an improvised comedy with more hits than misses.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Priceless.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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