For Your Consideration Page #3

Synopsis: 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!
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Christopher Guest
Production: Warner Independent Pictures
  3 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
PG-13
Year:
2006
86 min
$5,490,967
Website
884 Views


- That's not good. But you know what?

It's all right because we should go

a whole different angle...

- ...that no one's even thought of.

- Okay.

What if we go the angle of

let's play it down?

Let's tell people not to see our show?

- What about--?

- That's a dangerous sell, Whitney.

Put a big ad in the paper

and say, "Don't come."

Okay. True enough.

But as my proud ancestors,

the Choctaw, say...

...what we're dealing with

on this picture is:

Difficult to translate it.

Basically, we don't have a blanket.

We don't have a blanket for a--

It's a diuretic pony, I'm sorry--

Urinary-problem pony to piss on.

Excuse me.

- Give me one sec.

- Okay.

- Just look up.

- I just need one sec.

Can you do that without touching me?

You're fine.

- Gorgeous.

- Thank you.

- I'm almost set here. We're rolling.

- We're good?

Okay. Actors.

Actors acting.

- Good.

- Not right now.

- But, yeah.

- Oh, you don't think you are?

I mean, we're all acting all the time.

You know, but I'm acting differently.

So tell me, Home for Purim.

- Home for Purim.

- Yeah.

It's a period film.

- Yeah.

- I play Rachel Pischer.

I play Sam Pischer,

her brother, little brother.

Yeah.

But, which brings me to,

I heard a rumor that you two are:

- Yeah...

- Is that true?

- Depends on what you mean by:

- That's so cool.

- That's really cute.

- It is.

We are-- That-- It's a very--

It's a very interesting scenario,

playing siblings, living the life of lovers.

Well, tell me how you both

got started in acting as art?

I started doing standup

at Jerry Seltzer's Laff Emporium.

I was at Chortles, The Comedy Place.

And-- But no one really--

- No one really got it.

- I got it.

- I thought it was hysterical.

- What did she do?

She has a show. Tell her the title.

- No Penis Intended.

- Oh, I actually did hear, yes.

- What was that about?

- One critic described it as:

"A humorless romp

into Miss Webb's dysfunctional psyche."

- That's a humorless critic.

- That doesn't make sense.

- No.

- No.

Tuesday night. Eleven-ish.

Diamond Pawnbroker

on Sterling and Fifth.

- Ring a bell?

- Yeah. There was a break-in.

And did you make out the report?

- Did I what?

- You heard me, son!

Yes, I made out the report.

This report is an I-N270,

file number 79251J.

It is not a 35-DIB...

...and should not be filed as such.

Do I make myself clear?

That's a good clip. That was a good clip.

I loved that. I love the movie.

Paper Badge, I just loved it.

What a roller-coaster ride.

Nothing happened!

- Nothing happened in that clip.

- But that's the beauty--

Yes, it's about time in a film

nothing happened. It's about time.

It always, it's-- People get

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Christopher Guest

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5, 1948), usually simply known as Christopher Guest, is a British-American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian who holds dual British and American citizenship. Guest is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in his series of comedy films shot in mock-documentary (mockumentary) style. Many scenes and character backgrounds in Guest's films are written and directed, although actors have no rehearsal time and the ensemble improvise scenes while filming them. The series of films began with This Is Spinal Tap (directed by Rob Reiner), and continued with Waiting for Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, and Mascots. Guest holds a hereditary British peerage as the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, and has publicly expressed a desire to see the House of Lords reformed as a democratically elected chamber. Though he was initially active in the Lords, his career there was cut short by the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the right of most hereditary peers to a seat in the parliament. When using his title, he is normally styled as Lord Haden-Guest. Guest is married to the actress and author Jamie Lee Curtis. more…

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