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For Your Consideration

Country: USA, Language: English, 86 mins

  • Director: Christopher Guest
  • Writer: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy
  • Producer: Karen Murphy

CGiii Comment

Typical behind the scenes Hollywood stuff...with a liberal sprinkling of gay characters.

Unfortunately, it falls flat on its face because of...bad acting.

In-jokes and self-indulgence abound...

Guest & Levy obviously thought it very funny...but: THEY FORGOT ABOUT THEIR AUDIENCE.

Awful.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors' lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood!

Cast & Characters

Catherine O'Hara as Marilyn Hack;
Stephen Rannazzisi as Studio Gate Guard;
Ed Begley Jr. as Sandy Lane;
Eugene Levy as Morley Orfkin;
Harry Shearer as Victor Allan Miller;
Christopher Moynihan as Brian Chubb;
Christopher Guest as Jay Berman;
John Michael Higgins as Corey Taft;
Carrie Aizley as Pam Campanella;
Stephanie Courtney as Boom Operator;
Suzy Nakamura as First AC;
Jim Piddock as Simon Whitset;
Jane Morris as Script Supervisor;
Jennifer Coolidge as Whitney Taylor Brown;
Jordan Black as Whitney's Assistant