For Your Consideration
2006
Director Christopher Guest reunites his star-packed team from "A Mighty Wind", "Best In Show" and "Waiting For Guffman" for this hilarious, keen-edged comedy set in a town where "Oscar is the backbone of an industry not known for having a backbone." In "For Your Consideration", buzz of a potential Oscar nomination sends the .. Read more
| Starring | Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer |
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| Director | Christopher Guest |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Comedy |
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For Your Consideration
Director Christopher Guest reunites his star-packed team from "A Mighty Wind", "Best In Show" and "Waiting For Guffman" for this hilarious, keen-edged comedy set in a town where "Oscar is the backbone of an industry not known for having a backbone."
In "For Your Consideration", buzz of a potential Oscar nomination sends the cast and crew of the low-budget indie film "Home For Purim" into a wide-eyed frenzy. Catherine O'Hara, Harry Shearer and Parker Posey play "Purim's" lead actors who ride the wave of buzz with odd and oddly touching results. Eugene Levy, Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgens, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Bob Balaban and Fred Willard round out the cast of Hollywood types more than happy to exploit, bask in and leverage the Oscar hype.
| Starring | Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge |
|---|---|
| Director | Christopher Guest |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 23 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 04 Jun 2007 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (4)
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With its patient, watchful camerawork and unhurried pace, the film has a discreet, low-key elegance that makes a refreshing change from the loud, fast-tempo demands of most other Hollywood comedies
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The film fills it to the brim with a rib-bothering assemblage of asides, observations, in-jokes... plus some of the funniest fashion and personal-grooming errors you'll see this year
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17 out of 22 people found this review helpful
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End-of-year review
This film must have a been a LOT of fun for the half-familiar faces in it to make - a p*sstake of all Hollywood absurdities, and an enjoyable way of taking off the sillier aspects of a bonkers industry,
But what I can't believe is that there are other viewers who thought this subtle; it was about as subtle as a Hummer in a Chelsea backstreet.
On the whole, it'd have been most suitable for perhaps two half-hour comedy sketches: certainly not for a full-length film ('movie'), where it overstays its welcome by about 50 mins.
And Ricky Gervais needs to stop doing his shtick now: it's getting tiresome. -
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
It doesn't really go anywhere
Like i said above, it has a start a middle and an end, none of them are memorable and it doesn't feel like it went anywhere or had a purpose?
Not one to avoid, but not one to rush out to see. -
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