Waiting for Guffman (1997)

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Love the Hard Way

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Rating: R

Release Date: Jan 31, 1997

Running Time: 93 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Deborah Theaker, Michael Hitchcock, Scott Williamson, Larry Miller, Donald Lake, Christopher Guest, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, David Cross

director: Christopher Guest

A mockumentary set in the fictional town of Blaine, Missouri in which creative citizens prepare a multi-media pageant celebrating the 150th anniversary of their city.

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Waiting for Guffman

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If a mockumentary about the citizens of Blaine, Mo., staging a musical to celebrate the town's 150th anniversary doesn't grab you, hold on. Actor-director-writer-composer Christopher Guest (guitarist Nigel Tufnel in This Is Spinal Tap) loads an arsenal of laughs into a deceptively small package.

Wearing bangs and speaking in a lisp that barely skirts gay caricature, Guest plays Corky St. Clair, back in Blaine after a failed go at Broadway. He wins the job of…