Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Christopher GuestCorky St. Clair
- Eugene LevyDr. Allan Pearl
- Fred WillardRon Albertson
- Catherine O'HaraSheila Albertson
- Michael HitchcockSteve Stark - Councilman
- Larry MillerGlenn Welsch - Mayor
- Parker PoseyLibby Mae Brown
- Bob BalabanLloyd Miller
- Don LakePhil Burgess - Blaine Historian
- David CrossUFO Expert
Recommendations
- 100
Entertainment Weekly
A madcap gem. - 90
L.A. Weekly
Yet Waiting for Guffman is never mean-spirited. Its weird warmth is perfectly embodied by Guest himself, whose flamboyant, stagestruck choreographer, Corky St. Clair, could have (in less ingenious hands) been a cruel, gay-bashing caricature, but instead becomes a hallucinatory Everyman. - 90
Newsweek
The movie is, from start to finish, a hoot... Both a savvy satire of smalltown boosterism and an affectionate salute to the performing spirit. [10 Feb 1987, p.66] - 88
ReelViews
Thirty minutes into Waiting for Guffman, my stomach hurt from laughing. - 80
The New York Times
The don't quite do for "Oklahoma!" what they did for heavy metal, but they come close. [31 Jan 1997, p.C6] - 80
Film Threat
I saw this movie in a room full of San Francisco movie critics, and I haven't heard that much laughter since, well, the piano duet in "Island of Dr. Moreau" (which you must admit, was pretty funny.) - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie doesn't bludgeon us with gags. It proceeds with a certain comic relentlessness from setup to payoff, and its deliberation is part of the fun. - 70
Dallas Observer
Such a funny mess that it keeps you laughing even when you realize it's not much better directed than a cable-access talk show.
