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The Comic Documentary
True or False?
Glide Gear’s $199 mis-aimed selfie-stick – unless it’s dental narration
The Comic Documentary
by Jamie Jobb
Everyone knows “the truth hurts”. But sometimes it can be quite funny. Particularly when the story being told is framed around some kind of True-or-False know-it-all documentary narrative, like National Geographic or Philomena Cunk.
Socialized multi-media skulduggery in the form of clickbait fuels Faux News to the point where what’s True and what’s False on the screen in front of us is directly proportional to what the screen wants to sell to us. So True-or-False, maybe it can be a little bit of both? There’s always two sides to every story: the murder and the dead guy, the selfie and the schtick.
So let’s start, first, with this cued-up YouTube clip that is a hilarious sleight-of-edit:
https://youtu.be/9BUrNe3Vhtk?t=79
That clip starts at the point of beginning of a faux-Netflix narrated-documentary on Toast – and jam. As we learn the difference, we can then visit the following list of sixteen true-and/or-false documentaries/mocumentaries … each of them a funny film – in the peculiar sense.
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R.C. Bates as God The Unknown – personified
"And God Spoke" (The Making of) (1993)
"Two Thumbs Up for Satan!" Sly mocumentary charts rise and fall of "The Greatest Non-Denominational Bible Story Ever Told".
“We’ve just had a kind of creative miscarriage, you know. We just have to regroup before we can conceive our next project, that’s all.” Weary of cranking out sexploitation flicks like Dial S for Sexand Nude Ninjas, producer Marvin Handleman (Stephen Rappaport) and director Sidney "Clive" Walton (Michael Riley) aspire to epic "four billion target audience, times $7 per ticket".
“You would be surprised how well our films do in third-world countries.” But trouble starts from Day One: Eve won't do nude scenes, Studio cuts Jesus out of script, and Brando won't consider lead role. So they settle on tattooed "unknown" R.C. Bates as God because "...God is The Unknown, personified".
“We had a business associate who had a friend who knew this guy who had a friend who got sick, who got a couple of passes. It was very exciting.” Producer Handleman takes over picture when Director Walton bolts from set in dispute over cola product-placement in Moses' Ten Commandments scene. "If the Good Lord would have wanted a movie made, He would have made it Himself!"
“Don’t underestimate the magic of post production, Chip.” Directed by Arthur Borman. Written by Gregory S. Malins and Michael Curtis. “Just last week I got a thousand-dollar check from my oldest son. He asked me to sign it and sent it back.” (USA)
Nanni Moretti imagines himself a location scout, on location
Caro Diario [Dear Diary] (1994)
"I believe in people, I just don't believe in the majority of people." Simple everyman (Nanni Moretti), "a splendid 40-year-old", narrates rambling three-part first-person mocumentary.
Part One: Nanni imagines he's location scout for "musical about Trotskyist pastry chef in conformist Italy during the 1950s" while gliding Vespa through streets of Rome searching for $700-a-square-foot penthouse he can't afford. He talks back to movies, visits spot where Pasolini was assassinated, and detains Flashdance star Jennifer Beals walking down street. "Flashdance was the film that changed my life. But in the end, I just watch."
Part Two: Nanni as Ulysses wanders to each Aeolian island searching for solitude and trying to avoid his own L'Avventura. "I'm happy only at sea, sailing from the island I left to the one I'm going to."
Part Three: Nanni suffers nightly itching and insomnia so he visits six doctors, acupuncture center, reflexologist, masseuse and his mother, who all prescribe different cures.
In the end he finds cure but realizes "doctors know how to talk, but don't know how to listen". Written and directed by Moretti as a kindred cousin to Sherman's March. "Can we deny to Ulysses, after the fall of Troy, the right to roam? ... Certainly not! Otherwise there'd be no Odyssey." (Italy)
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Billy Burke is Dill Scallion
Dill Scallion (1999)
"I tell ya, I never realized how much work it was bein' popular. I'm too tired to play!" Muleshoe Texas school-bus driver and Saddle-Rash Amateur Hoedown runner-up Dill Scallion (Billy Burke), aka Dinky Davis and Fritter Face, may not wannabe "the white trash son of a poor sharecropper".
He just hopes to be someone "with a license plate that tells them all my name." Although Dill suffers lactose intolerance and dry scalp, he's "potentially the next Garth Brooks" who'll bring "new meaning to the term foot-stomping good time". Hideaway trip-and-fall metatarsal fracture prompts Dill's overnight dance sensation, but not without its daily price to pay. "Trick is, if you wanna do this dance, you can't let the bone heal..."
Lost in Scallion Shuffle is Dill's high school sweetheart Tina (Kathy Griffin) -- aka Baby, Buttercup, Sugar Plum and Puddin' Pop. After spending entire Personal Power Seminar with Ronnie Ray Reynolds (Michael Rodgers) in Cancun, Tina knows "I'm not just gonna take a backseat" to Dill's dream. Wholesale Nashville sellout Kristie Sue (Lauren Graham) abandons her lofty "City of Dreams" only to end up rode-hard-and-put-away-wet as Dill's conniving road bitch. "I seen a lot of liars in my time."
Everybody's buddy Bubba Pearl (David Koechner) may not be Minnie's son but he's "like Royalty, then" for certainly Bubba knows his Grand Ole Opry chops, not to mention his Stetson prices. "That's a family tradition." Bubba "can start a fire with a guitar" but he never realized Scallionitis would lead straight to Dill-on-Ice. Neither did legendary Jalapeno Records mogul Larry Steinberg (Henry Winkler), "the Phil Spector of Country – if you will".
Written and directed by Jordan Brady, this love-me-tenderized musical mocumentary hoists a singlecrutch on high for Gum-Aid's Victims-of-Gingivitis, Daddy's Special Friend's Lucky Boots and Rinse Cycle's Laundry-Basket-Full-of-Pain theme tour. "Sometimes these kids make it hard to be pro life."(USA)
Tim Robbins does his best Gotham back-alley Bob Dylan impression
Bob Roberts (1992)
"My husband trusted that his son would take the lessons of the Lord with him, no matter what instrument of the Devil caressed his hand." Poet, biker, folk-singer, fencing enthusiast, cunning Wall Street millionaire, U.S. Senatorial candidate -- "Freewheeling" Robert Roberts, Jr. (Tim Robbins) makes mincemeat of Plausible Deniability in political bid to "Retake America".
“Don’t smoke crack, it’s a ghetto drug.” Roberts, The Rebel Conservative, ran away from 1960s Peacenik home to enter Westmoreland Military Academy en route to becoming Christian hero "who can clean up the Devil's mess in our Capitol." Crypto-Dylan song titles -- "Times Are Changing Back", "We Shall Not Be Moved" -- belie Robert's mercenary motives. "If you're afraid of an active market, you're a dead man."
“That is deviant brilliance. What a Machiavellian poser!” Incumbent Senator Brickley Paiste (Gore Vidal) is ineffectual opponent to dirty tricks and MTV marketing of self-proclaimed "people's candidate".
“Excuse me, I have to go pray.” Indignant Iran-Contra operative Lucas Hart III (Alan Rickman) is CIA-trained campaign manager who stops at nothing, including attempted liquidation, to mold image of Roberts as Martyr-of-the-New-Right.
“We all think you’re wonderful and we just wish there was a way we could vote for you three times.” Written and directed by Robbins, this scathing knuckleball satire is cynical end-of-millennium flip side of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and the Congressional January 6 Select Committee. "Hang 'em high for a clean-living land." (USA)
Lawrence, Cundieff and Scott got some Hats, mo-fo
Fear of a Black Hat (1992)
"Take away the pornography, take away the women-bashing, take away the 'Kill Whitey' stuff...Take it all away and you've got the kids next door, you really do." Clarence Thomas calls them "scum", but NWH knows "a Gangsta's Life Ain't Fun".
Certainly not for bad rappers in Dr. Seuss hats! "When there were slaves and stuff they would work ... with the sun beatin' down on 'em, hatless ... So by the time they got back to the plantation ... they was too tired to rebel against their masters, right? So what we say with Niggaz With Hats is Yo, we got some hats now, mother-." Mocumentary chronicles rise-and-fall-and-rise of NWH (Ice Cold, Tasty-Taste and Tone-Def) known for in-your-face hits: "My Peanuts" and "Guerrillas in the Midst".
Ice (Rusty Cundieff), who's "the same complexion as Bob Marley", wears three pagers at once but knows "the association between rap and violence is purely a fictional thing". Tasty-T (Larry B. Scott), who's "the same complexion as Marcus Garvey", collects guns and doesn't smile because "if you smile, then a woman think she got you". Tone (Mark Christopher Lawrence), who's "the same complexion as Malcolm X", knows "When you take that bus, you get there!"
Trouble tips these Hats when Cheryl "ain't-nothin-wrong-with-me-a-man-can't-fix" C. (Rosemarie Jackson) gets on that bus with Tasty-T, while Ice stars in New Mack Village by black auteur Jike Spingleton (Eric Laneuville). "We were lookin' for a villain in the court see/out in the Valley of the Simi/where a black man gets no justice/cause a kangaroo court don't trust us!"
Written and directed by Cundieff. Despite harsh hip-hop lip service straight-outta-Compton, NWH knows difference between "a ho and a bitch", Vanilla Sherbet and Yo Highness, one "angry shoe" and Horton-Hears-a-Who. "The black man was the first sensitive man – long before Alan Alda." (USA)
the kind of picture you should expect from a steam-powered projector
Forgotten Silver (1997)
"I've gotta confess," says Leonard Maltin, "Colin McKenzie was just a name I'd read somewhere ... he didn't have a lot of impact on me until this great discovery. I am just flabbergasted."
Old trunk in garden shed reveals hidden wealth of cinema history, more than mere "home movies". These rare 35-mm master prints prove beyond reasonable doubt that New Zealand's phantom film pioneer McKenzie invented steam-powered projector, used flax leaves and stolen eggs to make his own film stock, developed world's first tracking shot using his unique bicycle-camera, and created talkies nineteen years before The Jazz Singer.
Unfortunately his characters spoke Chinese – without subtitles – and his English-speaking audience "just walked out in droves, they couldn't understand a word". McKenzie proved to be so ahead-of-his-time, he even shot crude comic documentaries that became "sort of a forerunner to the Rodney King tape".
Written and directed by Peter Jackson and Costa Botes. Move over Lumiere, Melies, Griffith and Edison – make room for Colin McKenzie! Jackson-Botes' cagy mocumentary in faux-PBS style searches for long-lost "ruins" of McKenzie's "fanciful recreation" of ancient Jerusalem in dense forests of New Zealand's wild Westlands. "Here was this unknown genius who died in obscurity and who now belongs, you know, in the pantheon of great cinema artists and innovators." (New Zealand)
naked mole rats: everybody seems to have the same job
Fast, Cheap and Out-of-Control (1997)
"He wasn't the type of animal that you could pet, but he was the type of animal that would put up with you."
ONE: Dave Hoover, circus lion-tamer, knows "physically there's no way to really stop them, except bluff them." His secret: "It's basically animal psychology. You try to keep the animal afraid of you, in that he does not understand you."
TWO: George Mendoca believes "there's nothing like the hand shears" to tame his topiary "green animal" privet hedges "all done from memory". So the artist told his patron: "You could be a big help to me if you picked your own flowers."
THREE: Rodney Brooks, MIT Artificial Intelligence scientist, envisions "a cost-effective way to keep a tv screen clear" but his six-legged robot Genghis seems to suggest his own evolutionary agenda.
FOUR: Ray Mendez, naked African mole-rat specialist, observes his subterranean mammals as "a society just like termites" or bees or ants. "It's not something that happens every day. You have to go out and look for it."
Directed by Errol Morris, working without script, this holographic "documentary" seeks coherently companionable creatures lurking in surreal dreamscape montage that splices all four interviews into old Republic serial of infrared ghosts posing eternal question: Does everyone here all have the same job? "They're constantly trying to find themselves in another social animal." (USA)
Edie and Edith Bouvier Beale reside in primly-proper squalor
Grey Gardens (1975)
"This is the revolutionary costume. I never wear this in East Hampton." Flaunting cutoff curtain miniskirts and incessant head scarves, faded debutantes feed Wonder Bread and Cat Chow to attic raccoons of decaying 28-room mansion in "mean, nasty Republican town". "It's concentrated ground."
Two "staunch" women – 56-year-old Edie Bouvier Beale (Jackie-O's cousin) and her 79-year-old mother Edith Bouvier Beale (Jackie-O's aunt) – hammer out their haunted kindred karma with deranged duets and rambling sad solos. “France fell, but Edie didn’t fall.”
Edith: "My voice was beautifully trained, I never tried to attract men with it." Edie: "I never had a minute's fun."
“I can’t stand being in this house. In the first place, it makes me terribly nervous. I’m scared to death of the doors, locks, people roaming around in the background, under the trees, in the bushes. I’m absolutely terrified!” Silly, sorry peek into faded glory of New England aristocracy turned sour. "The human mind will not function when it’s hot."
“It’s very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.” Directed by David and Albert Maysles with Ellen Houde and Muffie Meyer, this brutally personal documentary captures both women staggering along brittle border between eccentric and erratic on displaced track of Robert Frost roads-not-taken, off-key Virginia Military Institute fight-song and dance, "You and the Night and the Music" and Norman Vincent Peale radio lectures. "Try, really try. Think, really think. Believe, really believe." (USA)
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4-H man Floyd McClure: no place to wear fur
Gates of Heaven (1978)
"Most people don't know it but we're in the middle of a pet explosion ... [and] I would say that the pill is probably largely more responsible for the pet explosion than any other single factor." Being an animal lover and "4-H man" Floyd McClure believes "the only thing I'm guilty of is compassion. That's all."
Paraplegic McClure knows his Foothill Pet Cemetery near Los Altos California was "sort of a Kismet idea". "Anybody that would come whizzin' up in a Cadillac with all of her furs on to a cemetery – and you know when they're diggin' animals it's gonna be an odor there – don't have much upstairs. I'll tell ya that was not the place to wear fur."
“Surely at the gates of heaven an all-compassionate God is not going to say: ‘Well, you’re walking on two legs, you can go in. You’re walking on four legs, we can’t take you.” Bubbling Well Pet Memorial Park entrepreneur Calvin Harberts knows his Napa burial grounds are a family business. Cal employs his two sons – young brother Danny who's "inspirationally dissatisfied" guitarist, and many-trophied older-brother Phillip who knows his motivation, in fact "I understand it quite well".
“Death is for the living and not for the dead.” Directed by Errol Morris – working without script – his first documentary sets up grand dynamic of glue factory and pearly gates for dearly departed pets. "But I don't know what happens down there, I really don't. The moisture, the contraction, the expansion of the ground.” (USA)
action is the distraction at Jack Long Team Nissan
Hands on a Hard Body (1998)
"One thing I learned real good in this whole thing was if you really want something, you keep your hands on it." In Longview Texas, two dozen self-assured Lone Stars compete in "absurd" KYKX-FM marathon to win one $15,000 "fully-loaded" candy-apple blue Jack Long Team Nissan "Hard-Body" pickup truck. The contest is painfully simple: final person left standing with at least one gloved hand on the truck wins it.
Ronald McCowan is "country boy" who understands lure for fellow contestants: "A truck is a force! Like you can pull things, you can do things with a truck. Truck make money. Car don't make money."
Angie Turner knows her Bluebonnet best "do" might have to take a backseat and "I might not have time to take a bath, but I'll have plenty of time to squirt a bunch of perfume on."
Spiritualist Norma Valverde taps uplifting Walkman tapes to learn true meaning of one-hand-clapping, while former winner Benny Perkins wants to "Just go through the night, and see what transgresses". And good-ole boy J.D. "Bubba" Drew knows the secret's in deer hunting. "It's called patience."
Three-day endurance event in K-Mart parking lot becomes microcosmic brouhaha of middle America psych-outs through itchy gloves, toothless grins, big boots, prayer circles, 20-ton AC units, gift certificates to Johnny Cases, "Our God is an Awesome God" and follow-your-bliss.
Directed and edited by S.R. Bindler, his first film. This homespun Hi-8 satire-of-fact documentary avoids imposing its own will on stunning fruitcake medley of face-savers who can only lead an outsider to conclude: a Texan never loses. "If you can't hunt with the big dogs, get up on the porch with the pups." (USA)
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What woman could resist the wily charms of Andy Kaufman?
I'm from Hollywood (1989)
"Let me ask you something: Did you come here to wrestle, or act like an ass?" Fearless stand-up comic/tv star Andy Kaufman's boyhood dream was to become "a famous big time wrestler".
As self-proclaimed "Inter-gender Champion" Kaufman chases his dream by challenging women in comedy club audiences to tussle with him. "I couldn't very well challenge men in the audience because I'd get beaten right away."
From these not-so-humble beginnings, Kaufman lands in ring of Memphis' Mid-South Coliseum withstanding "body-slams", "pile-drivers" and "side-suplexes" from pros like Jerry "The King" Lawler.
Goading crowd, baiting opponents, fighting with tv commentators, the Hollywood comic marks himself as silly bully in sheep's clothing. "I thought that there was going to be this other human being behind the performer that I had seen. And there was. But it was even more bizarre than the performer."
Written, directed and edited by Lynne Margulies and Joe Orr. Strange "documentary" chronicles how Kaufman pins bogus "sport" of pro wrestling on its ear. "I always thought wrestling wasn't real, but apparently I guess at least this ... was." (USA)
Bozo serial-killer Benoit Poelvoorde is one cunning Octopus
Man Bites Dog [C'est Arrive Pres de Chez Vous] (1992)
"At times, crafty as a fox. At times a little rascal. At times a gangster, but generous as they come."One-man-band-of-outsider Benoit Patard (Benoit Poelvoorde), aka Ben the wannabe Everyman, may be "a good boy" and really "a darling" art connoisseur, nostalgic cinéaste, amateur boxer, poet-pianist, and ... cold-blooded mass murderer. "As a kid they called me The Octopus."
Ben still is "full of pranks and blond as a field of wheat". We know this because Ben's life is open to total media scrutiny. Indeed, Andre the camera/light man (Bonzel) and Remy the reporter/mike operator (Belvaux) work their way onto Ben's payroll in hard-to-fathom arms-length cinéma-véritémocumentary.
Remy "stinks like a billy goat", Andre knows they're running out of cash, and sound man Patrick (Jean-Marc Chenut) turns up dead on location. "Stop it, kid. You start like that and it becomes a habit. That's revenge. Stop it!"
Directed by Reme Belvaux, Andre Bonzel and Poelvoorde. Written by Belvaux, Bonzel, Poelvoorde and Vincent Tavier. Shock-jock satire of trivialized violence bites its own tail in drunken rage of Dead Baby Boy and Brigitte Bardot's panties, highway drive-by and high-rise loneliness, railway strangulation and graphic gang rape. "Red is the color of blood, of Indians! It's the color of violence! And the scourge of society, as everybody agrees, is violence. So why the red bricks?” (Belgium)
girlfriends galore across The South in Sherman’s sea-stroll
Sherman's March (1985)
"I'm gonna be so bored with your loneliness that I'm gonna have to dump you myself." McElwee is single, white, "sort of lust-ridden" Southern-born Boston filmmaker who has "these tendencies toward depression and anxiety" despite his "instant rapport with people" as he is hidden behind his movie camera --- particularly people who happen to be women, unabashed before his lens.
So heeding his sister's advice, McElwee uses his craft to meet women in brilliant low-key "meditation on the possibility of romantic love in the South during an era of nuclear weapons proliferation". McElwee attempts to complete real documentary on "tragic" Civil War anti-hero William Tecumseh Sherman, while mulling his own single status. "It seems I'm filming my life in order to have a life to film, like some primitive organism that somehow nourishes itself by devouring itself, growing as it diminishes."
His family hopes Ross will simply find a "nice Southern girl" and "things will be fine". Instead, Ross follows chain of broken hearts across same littered battlefields as Sherman: Mary the country-club model, Pat the "nymphet" actress who flaunts her cellulite, Claudia the survivalist interior designer, Winnie the island-hippie researcher, Jackie the burnt-out plutonium protestor, Dee-Dee the singing girls-school administrator, Joyus the lusty lounge rocker, and Karen the old-flame attorney.
"With consummate timing I insist on talking to Karen about our relationship in the midst of 10,000 angry Southern women." Written, directed, narrated, edited and photographed by Ross McElwee II in a tour-du-force of do-it-your-selfie-ism. McElwee's camera finds culture clash of Easter bunny and Anti-Christ, Burt Reynolds and Stanley Kubrick, "Blood-sucking cone-noses" and "counterpart theory", "total reconstruction" and "primal attraction", R-E-S-P-E-C-T and Peachtree-Battle. "Maybe it's just that I'm camera-shy – in a reverse way." (USA)
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single New York lovers remotely sensed
Unmade Beds (1997)
"Now I've only recently become old enough to be an older woman, so I get all these young guys."Brenda (Brenda Monte) could be "SWF Italian Sexy" ex lap-dancer who has "a nice body ... for your age". But she's also an admitted shoplifting gold-digger who "wants to know (does a) man with values still exist?" So she seeks one good man "to give me money, help me with the things I need, and go away."
Michael (Michael DeStefano) is short, intense, bitter Brooklyn dodger who hires "a dating coach" to help him overcome obstacles of height and marriage avoidance. "Women always say they wanna go out with nice guys. But they don't go out with nice guys. They go out with creeps, jerks and scumbuckets."
Heartfelt Rubenesque Aimee (Aimee Copp) is straightforward "SWF 28 220 lbs." who admits "It's really embarrassing, but I was dumped by a submissive!"
Mikey (Michael Russo) is swinging security-guard screenwriting-bachelor who at 55 prides himself on avoiding "mutts", without realizing his offensive line is scoreless against mean curveball of Big Apple Pussy Power. "The way I see it, they're the beauties and I'm the beast."
Written and directed by Nicholas Barker. A mendacious cultural-anthropologist, Barker and candid cinematographer William Rexer II remotely sense Gotham's personals scene through frame of Manhattan windows and walls to cast all in brutally frank light of voyeuristic confessional narrative mocumentary of non-actors playing themselves to the hilt. An Edward Hopper painting come to life? "I would sleep with him now just for how sexy he used to be." (British/American)
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cleaning up everyday in the Florida panhandle
Vernon, Florida (1981)
"I don't know of any crimes that's goin' on here." Errol Morris offers his documentary soapbox to locals of panhandle hamlet, population 778, and Sunshine State characters verify why other crackers call these parts of Florida "L.A." for Lower Alabama. "They're a smart bird, the smartest we got in this country."
"What I know about 'em is just self-experience." Loquacious Henry Shipes and taciturn Snake Reynolds offer practical advice on hunting wild turkey in planted pines outside Falling Waters. “I looked at that turkey, and I looked at that open spot. I just eased that gun up real slow behind them pines. And eased down, and lo …”
Other locals like Claude Register, Albert Bittering and Roscoe Collins tangle under Spanish moss with own yarns of four-track minds, "big red wiggle", New Mexico "growing" white sands – in a jar.
"You ever seen a man's brains? I’ve seen ‘em. I’ve picked them up, scooped them up. Put them in, do them up like brains. You buyin’ brains?"
"I began to pray, then I began to go price vans, but I didn't feel like my prayers and the prices I found on the vans just coincided exactly the way they ought to." Directed by Morris – working without script – to capture coincidental truths of mosquito-foggy denizens told in tiny details of mule carcass, hooked perch, re-certified radar gun and "another therefore experience". (USA)
community theater stagecraft awaits angel from Broadway
Waiting for Guffman (1996)
"I think the important thing about these show biz people is that you've got to have another life." “So, during the show I had someone burn newspapers and send it through the vents in the theater. And well, they freaked out. Of course the Fire Marshall came and they shut us down for a couple days.”
Mocumentary follows high-school drama teacher Corky St. Clair (Christopher Guest), known for "in-your-face theater", who mounts ambitious "Red, White and Blaine" community musical theater production celebrating sesquicentennial of Blaine Missouri – locally renowned as "Stool Capital of the World" and pre-Roswell UFO pot-luck site.
“He can act and he can sing and he can dance. There’s only one other person in the world who can do all that, and that’s Barbra Streisand.” Assisting Corky are stand-up dentist Dr. Allan Pearl (Eugene Levy), stay-home travel agents Ron and Sheila Albertson (Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara) and Dairy-Queen Libby Mae Brown (Parker Posey) who all fight adversity and bad timing. “It’s like a Hitchcock movie, you know, where they tie you up in a rubber bag and throw you in the trunk of a car. You find people!”
“We consider ourselves bi-coastal, if you consider the Mississippi River one of the coasts.” Directed by Guest, written by Guest and Levy who were waiting for their own Godot. Certainly, it sure beats selling Remains-of-the-Day lunch boxes and My-Dinner-with-Andre action figures. "There's not much pleasure but not much pain, cause nothing ever happens in Blaine" ... even when they save front-row seat for Broadway baron Guffman. (USA)
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