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A Mighty Wind
2003
Three features. 'Waiting For Guffman', 'Best In Show' and 'A Mighty Wind', a documentary-style comedy about three folk groups from the 1960s who get together for a reunion concert in New York in memory of a recently deceased folk manager. Read more
| Starring | Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, Ed Begley Jr., Eugene Levy |
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| Director | Christopher Guest |
| Genres | Comedy |
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A Mighty Wind
Three features. 'Waiting For Guffman', 'Best In Show' and 'A Mighty Wind', a documentary-style comedy about three folk groups from the 1960s who get together for a reunion concert in New York in memory of a recently deceased folk manager.
| Starring | Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, Ed Begley Jr., Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Harry Shearer |
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| Director | Christopher Guest |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 28 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 11 Jun 2004 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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This Is Spinal Tap's Christopher Guest takes the mickey out of the folk music scene for this unplugged musical satire. Director and co-writer Guest, along with fellow Tap alumni Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, is called upon to reform acoustic trio The Folksmen for a memorial concert for the late promoter Irving Steinbloom. Headlining the event above the ridiculously upbeat New Main Street Singers are Mitch & Mickey (played by Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara), once the sweethearts of the folk world, who haven't spoken to each other for nearly three decades following a messy divorce. This mockumentary can never hope to match the satirical bite and straight-faced spoofing of the classic Spinal Tap, but it still manages some laugh-out-loud moments courtesy of Fred Willard as the hopelessly misguided manager of the New Main Street Singers.
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A mock documentary that captures the style and the sound of the past, when folk was, briefly, pop; its tone is too genial for effective satire.
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15 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Smiles all round
With 'A Mighty Wind' Christopher Guest takes a gentler look at his subject than in 2000's wickedly sharp 'Best in Show'.
The film follows three seminal 1960's folk music groups who reunite for a one-off show to commemorate the passing of their label boss. The Folksmen, a three piece with their fair share of internal strife, Mitch and Mickey, a duo once sharing their vision of love now barely sharing the same reality, and The Main Street Singers, an almost cult-like collective of disturbingly smiley players.
All the characterisations are spot on believable, perhaps the result of Guest's unusual scripting methods. Instead of set dialogue actors create extensive backgrounds for their characters then ad lib the majority of screen interactions.
Cast standouts are Eugene Levy (the dad in American Pie films) as drug and emotion damaged folk singer Mitch, and Michael McKean as the third member of The Folksmen whose cringing reaction to Harry Shearer's (the Simpsons) 'life change' is a joy to watch.
While 'A Mighty Wind' doesn't reach the wincing laughter levels of Guest's previous effort I had a smile on my face for the whole film. And really...what more can you ask for? -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Breaks Like the Wind
This film is so much better once you have seen the same ensemble cast in 'Best in Show'. The two together show the range of talent that the team can produce.
Whilst I did not laugh out loud, compared to numerous belly-laughs in Spinal Tap, the performances and the attention to detail in this parody makes the Tap seem rather shallow.
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American beauties join Mendes cast
- 22 Apr 2008
Good Night, And Good Luck star Jeff Daniels and A Mighty Wind's Catherine O'Hara are the latest Hollywood hotshots to sign up for the new comedy from American Beauty director Sam Mendes. The Hollywood Reporter says the pair have joined a cast including Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live, A Prairie Home Companion), John Krasinski (Leatherheads, The Office: An American Workplace) and Alison Janney (Juno, The West Wing), for the film, which starts production this week. Cheryl Hines (Curb Your... Read more
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A Mighty Wind
Three features. 'Waiting For Guffman', 'Best In Show' and 'A Mighty Wind', a documentary-style comedy about three folk groups from the 1960s who get together for a reunion concert in New York in memory of a recently deceased folk manager....
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