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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 23, 2003
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Christopher Guest, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Jane Lynch, Parker Posey & Fred Willard | |
Performer: | Bob Balaban, Paul Dooley, Paul Benedict, Mary Gross, John Michael Higgins, Jim Piddock, Don Lake, Deborah Theaker, Michael Hitchcock, Larry Miller, Jennifer Coolidge, Bill Cobbs, Michael Mantell & Ed Begley, Jr. | |
Directed by | Christopher Guest | |
Edited by | Robert Leighton | |
Screenwriting by | Christopher Guest & Eugene Levy | |
Produced by | Karen Murphy | |
Director of Photography: | Arlene Nelson |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[A] sublime, dizzying satire of American folk music....A movie that re-creates its object of satire with such pitch perfect flair that all but erases the line between derision and love...
Entertainment Weekly
...The gifted repertory company again creates an amusing gallery of incisively observed characters, riffing off each other with enjoyment levels that frequently prove contagious...
Variety
...Few filmmakers today can show us our most ridiculous selves with as much merciless wit and tender mercy...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 5/5 --
Guest lets the characters talk at length, obliviously revealing their own quirks and neuroses.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
One breathtaking moment of clarity between Eugene Levy's Mitch and Catherine O'Hara's Mickey gives way to an anticipated kiss during which you can practically sense the characters' hearts thumping and their fictional contemporaries rooting for them.
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The Film Yap
There is no shortage of performers with comic skills in A Mighty Wind. What's lacking instead is a visible premise for the satire and ridicule.
Observer
...The satire is so deadpan that you sometimes have to pinch yourself to realize how dead-on it is....The unmatchable Fred Willard tears it up...
USA Today
Product Description:
Christopher Guest follows up his hilarious mockumentary BEST IN SHOW with this parody of the folk music industry. Three well-known folk groups come together for a reunion concert in New York City, singing brilliantly funny songs and producing uniquely bizarre laughs along the way. The Folksmen are an all-male trio consisting of an upright bass, a banjo, a guitar, and a whole lot of melody. Hilarious scenes of the group rehearsing casually in the kitchen, while reflecting on bygone days, are some of the most candidly funny moments in the film. Fake archival photos of the band, combined with the names of their hit songs--"Hitchin'", Singin'", "Ramblin'", "Wishin'", and "Pickin'"--generate wonderfully dry jokes. When not peering in on the Folksmen, the film spends time getting to know Mitch and Mickey, a popular duo and a great folk love story. Mitch and Mickey talk openly about the emotional torment of their breakup, though it is clearly difficult for them. However, back together again, they manage to rehearse--and perform--their famous love song that requires a dramatic kiss in the middle. Last but not least are The New Main Street Singers, a raucous group of nine--a neuftette--that wear matching outfits and sing upbeat songs. Some of the more bizarre personalities in the film come out of this group, bringing a tone to this folk odyssey that recalls moments from Guest's BEST IN SHOW and WAITING FOR GUFFMAN. A hollerin' good time, A MIGHTY WIND is yet another comic masterpiece from Guest, whose films resonate with viewers long after they're through, and easily lend themselves to repeat viewings.
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- Sales Rank: 121,478
- UPC: 085392771820
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