Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest, 1996) Christopher Guest
[An aspiring director and the marginally talented amateur cast of a hokey small-town Missouri musical production go overboard when they learn that someone from Broadway will be in attendance.]
I listened to the commentary of the writers while watching Waiting for Guffman. They sounded bored. I was bored. By the film, not them – Guest, and the other guy. It might be the usual thing (for me) about American humour not being funny to someone brought up in the British tradition. But I think it’s also true, as one critic suggested, that the film-makers actually have an affectionate attitude to participants in amateur theatre. And, as someone who played Curly in a forgotten production of Oklahoma! mounted by the Narrogin Repertory Club, so do I! (That’s my exclamation mark; the other one is sic.)
Garry Gillard | reviews | New: 20 March, 2017 | Now: 10 March, 2022