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Mood:
- CleverHumorousOffbeatWittyBitingCynical
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Plot:
- Actor's LifeObsessionMedia SatireShowbizFilmmakingAmbitionArtists and ShowbizMedia more...
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Genres:
- Comedy
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- HollywoodUSA
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Praise:
- Award Winner
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Humor:
- SatireIrreverent HumorDry Humor
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Style:
- Ensemble CastFilm in Film
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Attitudes:
- Not SeriousRealistic
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Flag:
- Profanity
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For Your Consideration, 2006
English
USA
Profile of For Your Consideration
The mood of For Your Consideration is biting, cynical, and clever. The plot centers around media satire, the life of an actor, and filmmaking. It features satire and irreverent humor. For Your Consideration is a comedy movie. Stylistically, it is a film in a film and stars an ensemble cast. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. For Your Consideration is set in Hollywood. It happens in contemporary times. The movie is known for being an award winner. Note that For Your Consideration includes profanity.
Summary of For Your Consideration
Arch satirist Christopher Guest (THIS IS SPINAL TAP, BEST IN SHOW) brings more mirth to the screen, providing an inimitable take on the film industry with FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. The plot follows the cast and crew of a fictional movie called HOME FOR PURIM, which is directed by Jay Berman (played by Guest himself) and stars an aging actress at the end of her career, Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara); an actor best known for starring in a hotdog ad, Victor Allen Miller (Harry Shearer); and young Callie Webb (Parker Posey), who is trying to put her VAGINA MONOLOGUES-esque past (in a production called NO PENIS INTENDED) firmly behind her. As Berman and Co. attempt to bring HOME FOR PURIM to the screen, a variety of supporting players flits in and out of the movie, with Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Coolidge appearing as two very different producers, Jane Lynch and Fred Willard playing the glitzy hosts of trashy celebrity-obsessed TV show HOLLYWOOD NOW, and Bob Balaban appearing as a frustrated co-writer. This motley bunch all get along just fine until an Oscar buzz surrounds certain cast members, leading to a fierce explosion of wildly different ideas and ambitions for the film.
Fans of Guest's movies will doubtless experience a welcome familiarity in the feel of FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. The usual deadpan wit, carefully crafted satire, and close attention to detail in everything from Fred Willard's haircut to the computer graphics of HOLLYWOOD NOW are all lovingly rendered, and Guest's loyal troupe of performers--as well as a sprinkling of new faces--delivers the material with habitual ease. In an era when most Hollywood comedy sticks to a strict, well-trodden formula, it's satisfying to find someone like Guest plowing a lonely furrow against the grain, and there's enough spark in FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION to suggest he still has plenty of wit yet to bestow on his faithful audience.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 17 November 2006 |
| Runtime: | 86 min |
Cast and Crew
as Morley Orfkin
as Marilyn Hack
as Callie Webb
as Victor Allan Miller
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Critics Reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
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- by: Michael Rechtshaffen
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Users Reviews
- 14.May.2009
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- by: fiercemd
- fiercemd rated this movie
4/10Disappointing
- 12.August.2008
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- by: may.graff
- may.graff rated this movie4/10Disappointing
