Wenn Guffman kommt

Originaltitel: Waiting for Guffman

1996
R
1 Std. 24 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,4/10

31.274

IHRE BEWERTUNG

trailer wiedergeben2:02

1 Video

99+ Fotos

Satire Comedy

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAn 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.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.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.

Regie
- Christopher Guest
Drehbuch
- Christopher Guest
- Eugene Levy
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,4/10

31.274

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- Christopher Guest
Drehbuch
- Christopher Guest
- Eugene Levy
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 2 Gewinne & 3 Nominierungen insgesamt

Videos1

Trailer 2:02

Waiting for Guffman

Fotos144

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Handlung

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Wissenswertes
When playing Blaine Fabin in "Red, White and Blaine," it becomes necessary for Dr. Pearl (Eugene Levy) to remove his glasses. Unfortunately, Dr. Pearl's glasses corrected his lazy eye problem. Actor Fred Willard was unaware of the gag during shooting, and after delivering the line, "What did your keen and perceptive eyes behold?" to Fabin, he stared at Levy's lazy eye, finally understood why his line was funny, and "was gone for about ten minutes" with laughter.

Patzer
During the last scene in the play, a tuba can be heard playing, but there is no tuba in the orchestra.

Zitate
Corky St. Clair: So what I'm understanding here, correct me if I'm wrong, is that you're not giving me any money, so now I'm left, basically, with nothing. I'm left with zero, in which, what can I do with zero? You know, what can I... I can't do anything with it. I need to... this is my life here we're talking about, we're not just talking about, you know, something else, we're talking about my life, you know? And it's forcing me to do something I don't wanna do: to leave. To go out and just leave and go home and say... make a clean cut here and say "no way, Corky. You're not putting up with these people." And I'll tell you why I can't put up with you people, because you're bastard people. That's what you are, you're just bastard people and I'm going home and I'm gonna... I'm gonna bite my pillow is what I'm gonna do!

Crazy Credits
During the end credits, Corky (Christopher Guest) shows us some of the fun memorabilia that he sells in his store.

Alternative Versionen
There is at least one rough cut of the film in circulation among fans of Guffman. It features an expanded performance of "Red, White and Blaine", including the musical number "This Bulging River", as well as dozens of alternate takes, as well as the exclusion of many scenes in the finished film, which were shot after this first rought cut was made.

Verbindungen
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Shadow Conspiracy/Waiting for Guffman/Star Wars: Special Edition/Gridlock'd/Prisoner of the Mountains/Walkabout (1997)

Soundtracks
Lightnin' Strikes
Words and Music by Lou Christie (as Lou Christy), Twyla Herbert
Courtesy of Music Corporation of America, Inc. (BMI)
Performed by James McQueen (uncredited)

Benutzerrezensionen221

Rezension

Ausgewählte Rezension

8/10

WAITING FOR GUFFMAN is several notches above any number of one's average, campy, feel-good comedies.

"Ostensibly posing as a documentary interviewing Blaine's manifold townsfolk, from city councilors, UFO experts, to those involved in the musical production, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN is also a jewel of improvisation, the majority of its hilarious lines, dialogue and personal interactions is ad-libbed (though Guest and Eugene Levy nominally take the credits as the scenarists), and delightfully, each member of Guest's stock company is gung-ho to contribute their own laugh lines into the fold, and the entire film is washed with uncynical ironies, from a pair of travel agents who has never ventured out of the town (save for a sexual organ reduction surgery, no less!), to the town's geography-challenged founding father, the much plugged stool manufacture (and those who can perform and utter it with a perfect serious face), not to mention the UFO abduction anecdote, a self-claimed abductee (Dooley) recounts that he has been multiply probed."

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