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1996 mockumentary comedy film by Christopher Guest

Waiting for Guffman is a 1996 American mockumentarycomedy film written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, and directed by Guest.

The film's ensemble cast includes Guest, Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban and Parker Posey.

The film's title is a reference to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. As in the other mockumentary films created by Guest, the majority of the dialogue was improvised (based on Guest and Levy's story).

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Because the film is about the production of a stage musical, it contains several original musical numbers written by Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer.

Plot

In the fictional small city of Blaine, Missouri, a few residents prepare to put on a community theater production led by eccentric director Corky St.

Clair. The show, a musical chronicling the town's history titled Red, White and Blaine, is to be performed as part of the town's 150th-anniversa