For Your Consideration Page #6

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
891 Views


- Oh, you know what?

- So it's good?

I forgot to mention. My girlfriend

was on the Internet last weekend...

...and she was checking out

her specialty sites.

Anyway, she got bored with that

and ended up...

...on one of the movie gossip things,

you know.

Filmtattle.com

or one of those celluloid...

- Do you ever go on those?

- I wouldn't know.

Well, anyway,

the long and the short of it is...

...some bloke got on the set...

...and he reckons there could be an

Academy Award nomination in the offing.

And more specifically,

he said that he thought...

...your performance

was likely to get recognized.

You know, come the announcements.

Anyway, thought I'd just share that,

for whatever it's worth.

See you out there.

All right, everybody, back to work.

- Whitney Taylor Brown.

- Yes.

That's a lot of names.

So you're a producer.

A woman producer.

What does a producer do?

Well, as my assistant, Lincoln,

can tell you...

...there's a lot of telephone calls

and, you know...

...lots of getting out the wallet and paying

for sometimes ridiculous things like--

Like snacks.

Let's go back

to the beginning of your career.

You are-- Your family is

in the diaper business?

Yes. Brown Diaper Service.

And what exactly did they do

with the diapers?

Well, they picked up the diapers

in big trucks...

...and then we washed them...

...and then gave them back

to the people.

That's neat. Thank you so much.

- We're done? We're done.

- Yeah, we're done.

All of it's done.

Don't you wanna know more about me?

Yeah, but we-- I don't--

We don't have time right now, so...

Thank you, though,

for talking to us and...

I don't want anyone to know

what I look like from the back...

...so I don't want anyone to film my exit.

Okay, it's off. It's not even on.

All right.

First of all, it's been so creative for us.

Every aspect of the movie,

I think, is represented.

I hope you like it as much

as we liked doing it.

The first, of course,

is a sort of Norman Rockwell.

It's America. It's the family eating.

You have the title in the Hebraic letters.

All right, well, my first instinct says

it reminds me of my family.

- Which we--

- And I hate my family.

And I think a lot of people

might feel that way.

I think that's such a fascinating take

on what we've done...

...because we've gotten away

from the family...

...and we make it this.

Man, that one is scary.

You got disembodied heads.

You know what I like?

I like when it's misleading in a good way.

This looks like a horror film.

It's horrifying, but like,

it's horrifying like a horror movie.

Someone's killed their children

and made them into cookies...

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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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