Waiting for Guffman

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One of the funniest films in many a moon was hiding at art house theaters in 1998. Former Saturday Night Live comedian and Spinal Tap member Christopher Guest creates the ultimate parody of small-town dramatics, Waiting for Guffman. Corky St. Claire (Guest), an overwhelming drama director hiding out in Blaine, Missouri, thinks he has found the vehicle to put him back on Broadway: the city's 150th anniversary play, Red, White, and Blaine. As rehearsals start, we learn of the town's history ("the stool capital of the world") including a brush with a UFO. The mockumentary follows the various townsfolk wishing for stardom: Parker Posey as a Dairy Queen clerk, Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard as stage-struck travel agents, Matthew Keeslar as the town's bad boy, and Eugene Levy (who cowrote the film with Guest) as a dentist who dreams of glory on the stage. The film is a hoot from beginning to end, and be sure to watch the closing credits. Fans of Guest's deft dry humor should not miss his other parody of the entertainment world, The Big Picture (Kevin Bacon as a student filmmaker who goes to Hollywood). --Doug Thomas

Customer Reviews:

"what did your keen and perceptive eyes behold?".......2007-07-19

Well there you have the 2 seconds in the movie that I laughed at...Unfunny Fred Willard with that line and Eugene Levy's lazy eye lol....the rest of the movie suffered from 'overfarcity' :) . It's like, when you know what your gonnna get, and especially after watching Spinal Tap, the situations can ONLY be mildy amusing at best, because 'forced farce' loses it's steam real quicklike...

Get Best in Show instead.......2007-07-18

I know there are many who like this movie, but it fell flat for me. The movie "Best in Show" is also filmed in this mockumentary style with a similar cast, but does it much better. Rent that one instead. I kept waiting for this one to get funny and for me it never did.

Absolute Classic Comedy .......2007-05-21

I have probably seen this 15 or 16 times, and every time I watch it I catch another hilarious detail, whether it be a line in the songs that I hadn't noticed before, or a nuance in the performances, or some other detail...every single member of Guest's "troupe" is at their best here. This flick just cracks me up. Corky is one of Guest's most memorable characters ever and the songs about Blaine are a riot. This is in my top 10 comedies of all time, easily, and my favorite of Guest's "mockumentaries."

Stool Boom!!!.......2007-05-12

Seriously one of the best comedies ever made. This film is brilliant. If you have ever done any form of community theatre you will understand why. You have to see it. Probably the best of all the Guest films.

Not their best, but still fun!.......2007-05-08

This isn't as good of quality as IMHO as Best in Show or A Mighty Wind, and of course This Is Spinal Tap, but still fun to watch.

Waiting... (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)

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If you LOVE Dane Cook - avoid this.
Great Film (with the exception of Ryan Reynolds)
Another underated comedy from Ryan Reynolds
WAY FUNNIER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE!
this movie is hilarious

Waiting... (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Ryan Reynolds , Anna Faris , Justin Long , David Koechner , and Luis Guzmán
Director: Rob McKittrick
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ASIN: B000CPH9PM
Release Date: 2006-02-07

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The bitter, vengeful world of waiting tables gets the Clerks treatment in Waiting.... A new employee (John Francis Daley, Freaks and Geeks) gets trained at Shenanigan's, a banal theme restaurant where the bored employees play a game of flaunting their genitals. The staff includes a snarky waiter (Ryan Reynolds, Van Wilder, The Amityville Horror) who lusts after the underage hostess; a waiter suffering from crippling pee-shyness (Robert Patrick Benedict, Threshold); an oracular dishwasher (Chi McBride, Roll Bounce); and a conflicted waiter named Dean (Justin Long, Dodgeball), who's just been offered a promotion to assistant manager--a job that offers more money, but threatens to trap him at Shenanigan's for the rest of his life. Waiting... is a loose shamble of a movie--the only thing resembling a story is Dean's life crisis--but that's part of its charm. It's a tricky thing to depict tedium without being tedious, but Waiting... pulls it off; some jokes smack of forced sitcom writing, but most of the humor feels genuine, as if it came from writer/director Rob McKittrick's personal experience. A future cult film. Also featuring Anna Faris (Lost in Translation), Luis Guzman (The Limey), and rabidly adored stand-up comic Dane Cook as..a cook. --Bret Fetzer

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A hilarious comedy about frustrated waiters, stingy tippers and dicey food, Lions Gate Films' WAITING... stars Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris and Justin Long as young employees battling boredom at Shenanigan's, a generic chain restaurant. A waiter for four years since high school, Dean (Justin Long) has never questioned his job at Shenanigan's. But when he learns that Chett, a high school classmate, now has a lucrative career in electrical engineering, he's thrown into turmoil about his dead-end life. Dean's friend Monty (Ryan Reynolds) is in exactly the same boat, but he couldn't care less. More concerned with partying and getting laid, Monty is put in charge of training Mitch (John Francis Daley), a shy new employee. Over the course of one chaotic shift, Mitch gets to know the rest of Shenanigan's quirky staff: Monty's tough-talking ex-girlfriend, Serena (Anna Faris), Shenanigan's over-zealous manager, Dan (David Koechner), and head cook Raddimus (Luis Guzman), who's obsessed with a senseless staff-wide competition known only as "The Game"... Featuring crazy busboys, unsanitary kitchen antics, and lots of talk about sex, WAITING... is a hysterical, behind-the-scenes look at the restaurant industry, and an affectionate ode to those lost, and thoroughly unproductive, days of youth.

Customer Reviews:

If you LOVE Dane Cook - avoid this........2007-08-31

I LOVE DANE COOK and I'd like to keep it that way. Unfortunately I watched this movie and it kinda ruined it a little bit for me but he's redeemed himself many times over!!! Not a great flick. See Employee of the Month, Vicious Circle or Tourgasm instead!

Great Film (with the exception of Ryan Reynolds).......2007-07-16

You really have to be in the Restaurant Business to truly appreciate this film.

BTW Ryan Reynolds is a terrible actor and stinks up every movie set he walks onto.

Another underated comedy from Ryan Reynolds.......2007-06-28

This movie is to restaurant workers as Super Troopers was to cops. A very funny movie. Much love to the goat!

WAY FUNNIER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE! .......2007-06-13

It is always a good feeling to watch a movie that you think is not going to be that good and getting more than you bargained for! This movie is pretty damn funny and I laughed out loud many times watching it. Not much plot,just low brow humor at it's best! The DVD has a great transfer and some funny extras.

this movie is hilarious.......2007-04-20

this is a really funny movie. although the guy from the mac commercials is a tool, but he is the lame dude in all the funny movies lately, he sucks, but the rest of the movie sucks. oh yeah and dane cook blows too, i wouldnt of known he was the cook if my brother didnt tell me. but besides those two cakes, the movie is really funny worth buying a cheap copy of on amazon fo shizzle

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A feel good film for ALL women!!!!!
Waiting to Exhale DVD
Understanding!
Desperate women who need to BREATHE.
Read the book and saw the movie!

Waiting to Exhale
Starring: Whitney Houston , Angela Bassett , Loretta Devine , Lela Rochon , and Gregory Hines
Director: Forest Whitaker
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ASIN: B00000ILEE
Release Date: 2001-03-06

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Based on a novel by Terry McMillan, this weepy melodrama about four African American women and the men who wronged them became an instant cultural phenomenon when it was released back in 1995. It's easy to see why Exhale struck a nerve: the movie boasts an attractive cast of African American actresses and personalities, including Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, and Lela Rochon. Unfortunately, though, Exhale sags under the weight of its soapy, crisis of the week plotting and relentlessly cheery "you go, girl!" optimism. And African American men, cast here as insensitive lovers and pigheaded materialists, get the very short end of the feminist stick. Perhaps moviegoers were simply responding to the brilliant soundtrack by R&B superstar Babyface, who provided the movie's only real groove. --Ethan Brown

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Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett star in this funny and touching film about four women who find strength through their rare and special relationship. Savannah, Bernadine, Robin and Gloria are all searching for the Real Thing: true love. Bernadine thought she had it, until her husband left her for another woman. Savannah and Robin are successful in business but their love lives are bankrupt. And divorcee Gloria is getting back in the game by flirting with her new, very eligible neighbor. Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel, and featuring the #1 smash hit "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)," "Waiting to Exhale" is the film you and your friends have been waiting for! Original score by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.

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A feel good film for ALL women!!!!!.......2007-07-04

I have to say that this is one of my favorite films of all time. Everyone did a good job in this film, especially Whitney Houston. My favorite character in the film would definitely have to be Bernadine. This film makes you laugh, cry, and also makes you aware of the fact that you do need friends to get you through the difficult times, especially when it comes to dealing with no good men!!!!

Waiting to Exhale DVD.......2007-06-15

Great Movie! I am glad to have it as part of my collection.

Understanding!.......2007-03-09

As a female, I enjoy watching what men call Chick Flicks but never watched them more than I had to. I enjoy horror movies, suspense, actions...
Watching Waiting to Exhale when I was a bit younger, I did not totally understand the concept of their struggles, often wondering why it is that the one girl would repeatedly put herself through a man that obviously did not really want anything to do with her but for sex only to hook up with a man that she obviously is not attracted to just for him to treat her coldly in the workplace. I could not understand why Bernie would burn some of her husband's belongings even the car then have garage sale with the rest, I could not understand why Gloria was hung on her very gay son's father hoping he would come back to her, I could not understand why Savannah would not hook up with the hunky fine chocolate brother... I could not understand why most of the things happened, but going through life itself, having children and friends I now do understand, which is why I decided to purchase this movie for my collections. Because inside of every female, there is a Savannah, Bernie, Robin and a Gloria.

Desperate women who need to BREATHE........2007-01-23

At first I loved this movie, it was one of my favorites. As a young lady who just turned 21, at that time I completely related to their struggles. A year later, I re-watched the film with more maturity. Surprising, my perspective of it was totally different.

Essentially, it is the story of four horny black women who think men are the key to happiness.

Yes, everybody craves sex at some point, some people more than others. The audience can resonate with their lust for sex, the characters' weaknesses, and minor faults. Still, after watching the movie a couple times, I realized that the characters in this film are simply naive.

I'm not trying to imply that females should be totally independent, and should never desire to date. However, they need to have standards!

Since the four characters are desperate for sex and a stable relationship, they lower their standards. This compromises their self-respect, morals and personal interests in order to "get a man". Obviously, they lure the sleaziest men the world has to offer. Even the four characters know that the men they're dating are worthless, as they repeat to themselves throughout the film. Nevertheless, the ladies waste time on these dogs in order to fuel they need for sex and attention.

At the end, it seems that they find more solidarity and happiness amongst each other. Though they don't seem to have fully learned from their mistakes, and seem likely to repeat the immature behavior.

To conclude, they need to breathe first, and with that added energy, they should cultivate some sense.

Read the book and saw the movie!.......2007-01-04

Read the book and saw the movie! NEXT!

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best English comedy i've seen...
Wonderful British Humor
Now this is how I want to grow old!
mom's dvd
Funny and Heartwarming

Waiting for God - Season 2
Starring: Stephanie Cole , Graham Crowden , and Daniel HIll
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ASIN: B000NHG7G6
Release Date: 2007-06-12

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Season Two of Waiting for God further exemplifies the comedic prowess of stars Graham Crowden and Stephanie Cole, as Tom and Diana, the feistiest personalities at Bayview Retirement Home. This season, viewers are also introduced to residents like Basil, the "sex pistol," fodder for Tom and Diana's acerbic wit. As in Season One, these unlikely friends sarcastically examine every aspect of aging, with unparalleled bitterness and theatrical panache. If some of Season One's episodes verged on dullness, the narratives in these episodes are loftier, providing more food for thought and room for creative scripting. Episode One launches the season with a funeral scene in which people take cell phone calls, and Tom and Diana discover they're at the wrong graveside. The rest of the segment is devoted to musings about life after death. In episode seven, Diana tries to help host the Glamorous Granny competition with a friendly demeanor, but cheer is too unnatural to her. The jokes this season are more morbid, the humor more sardonic, making it a more poignant critique of elderly living.

Sexual tension between Tom and Diana remains ambiguous this season, though Diana flatly rejects Tom's invitation to move in with him in Episode Two. Diana's staunch feminism is repeatedly elucidated when she takes offense with various situations, such as the Granny contest, or when a pretty new woman moves in on Episode Three, attracting the attentions of Bayview men. Diana's spinster appeal grows, though one wonders if and when she will ever let her guard down. Tom's character is deepened as well, as he confesses his loneliness and trains to be a Death counselor for those grappling with impending end. As much as the characters have changed, though, they will remain familiar to those who have appreciated them from the beginning. --Trinie Dalton

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At the Bayview Retirement Village the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort... but not if Tom (Graham Crowden) and Diana (Stephanie Cole) have anything to do with it! In Season Two, Tom and Diana continue to be rebel senior citizens determined to squeeze the most from life before meeting their Maker. Mysterious thefts at Bayview set Diana and Tom off on a bit of sleuthing; however, the ingenuity leads Tom into hot water as he finds himself taking the rap for a shoplifting offense. Diana defends him as "the most harmless, boring person in the world." Meanwhile, Harvey, the despicable manager of Bayview, has determined to cut costs by employing a group of short foreigners...

DVD Features:
Biographies:Cast bios
Featurette:Funny Women Featurette - Stephanie Cole

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best English comedy i've seen..........2007-08-18

Great comedy. The dark humor and sarcasm is very funny, but hides the underlying message (which is true) that Western nations treat their elderly like children.
Even if you don't like English comedy, this is still VERY funny.

Wonderful British Humor.......2007-08-09

This is a wonderful series. You can't beat British humor. I look forward to purchasing the remaining seasons when they are available.

Now this is how I want to grow old!.......2007-07-26

This comedy is absolutely one of the best satires I have ever seen! I used to watch bits and pieces of it when I was little, along with "Keeping Up Appearances" which I currently own the entire collection. I wish that this series was sold as a complete collection. As of yet it seems seasons 3-5 haven't been released in the US. I really hope they release them soon! I'm just dying to complete this GREAT collection!

mom's dvd.......2007-07-21

I haven't actually watched this series, but I hear about it all the time from my mom. (It was a birthday present.) She raves about it. I enjoy listening to her tell me about what's happening, because she becomes really animated! She obviously gets quite a kick out of it...

Funny and Heartwarming.......2007-07-12

Waiting for God is totally enjoyable. Imagine a home for retired people managed by a totally self-serving man who bullies his staff and attempts to bully the two stars of the show, Stephanie Cole and Graham Crowden. Ms. Cole has been the bane of everyone's existence there for a long time and when she is joined by Graham Crowden, they create havoc for everyone. Crowden's ineffective son and vicious daughter-in-law add to the interest as does Ms. Cole's niece. Altogether a most delightful program. Excellent acting, writing, and directing.

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What a way to retire
Diana....my role model
Tom and Diana are Magical
I Want To Be Diana When I Grow Up
Excellent!!

Waiting for God - Season 1
Starring: Stphanie Cole , Graham Crowden , and Daniel Hill
Director: Gareth Gwenlan
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ASIN: B000EOTUTE
Release Date: 2006-06-13

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It's strange that a British comedy series in the tradition of Monty Python and Mr. Bean would sit fifteen years before being released on DVD. However, Waiting for God's humor has less slapstick mixed in with its dark, dry wit, making its style uniquely relevant to facing old age and death. The first seven episodes are collected on this disc: Welcome to Bayview, A Trip to Brighton, Cheering Up Tom, The Christening, Fraulein Mueller, The Psychiatrist, and The Helicopter. In each, elderly citizen Tom Ballard (Graham Crowden) and his grumpy spinster friend, Diana Trent (Stephanie Cole) overcome boredom and malaise within Bayview Retirement Village, having some adventures outside its confines (like when they drive a Porsche to Brighton in "A Trip to Brighton"), but mostly relying on conversation to entertain themselves. Waiting for God exemplifies smart writing paired with solid acting, since there is little dramatic action to distract from its premise. As a result, Tom and Diana's characters have well-rendered personalities, making their conversations pleasantly predictable. Tom always fantasizes, believing he can enact change, like when he stages a hunger strike against Bayview's food in "Welcome to Bayview." Diana is the quintessential pessimist, her nose always buried in a novel or in a game of solitaire to pass time until death. She's bitter towards people who "revere everything ancient except themselves." Diana and Tom bond over broken families and a love of sarcasm, and their unlikely friendship is both realistic and entertaining. Plots against their refusal to accept senior citizen status grow heated, as in "The Psychiatrist," when Harvey, Bayview's manager, aims to prove Tom and Diana mentally incompetent in order to confiscate their rights. In "The Helicopter," Tom and Diana sneak a ride in a helicopter, causing panic and chaos amongst their caretakers. Instead of poking fun at the elderly, as does the other British comedy about an old couple, Keeping Up Appearances, Waiting for God satirically highlights the absurd notion that our elders are incapable of living intelligently. --Trinie Dalton

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At the Bayview Retirement Village the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort... but not if Tom (Graham Crowden) and Diana (Stephanie Cole) have anything to do with it! Meet two elderly eccentrics who refuse to put up with the appalling food and condescending staff, in the hilariously cynical BAFTA-nominated comedy that won Stephanie Cole a British Comedy Award in 1992.

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What a way to retire.......2007-09-10

Tom and Diana have to be the two funniest people in a series. How Diana can be so funny but never cracks a smile. Tom is as loony as can be but very loveable. Together they keep Bayview hopping. Excellent series.

Diana....my role model.......2007-08-22

If you want to be a cantankerous old battle ax I would highly recommend you watch this DVD and enroll in Diana Trenton's "charm school". If all women had this kind of spirit there would be less abused women in the world. She is smart and strong with a free spirit. We could learn a lot from this character about free thinking, free will, and a well placed sense of justice. But under all that armor is the tenderest heart. I love this show!!!

Tom and Diana are Magical.......2007-06-28

I was so happy to receive this DVD as I miss seeing Tom and Diana on my local PBS channel. The clarity of the DVD was excellent, much better than the TV version. The wit is typically British and wonderful. Though I have seen all the episodes, I never tire of watching them again. I'm hoping to be just like Diana when I retire; just as outspoken and unflappable! A wonderful escape from the horrible choices on TV.

I Want To Be Diana When I Grow Up.......2007-06-07

...and I'm working on it! I too will probably end up being the terror of some as-yet-unsuspecting "facility". Meanwhile, at 75, I'm working a job and a half, supporting myself and three cats, and thoroughly enjoying life and my friends.

This series does a wonderful job of pointing out that those of us who are "senior citizens" (I only use the term about myself when I want the discounts) are perfectly capable of living as useful citizens who can contribute their knowledge and experiences, have one whole hell of a lot of fun, and not have to be "managed".

Are Tom and Diana exaggerated? Probably. But they are great characters, perfectly cast. While enduring the physical infirmaties of age, they scheme relentlessly to outwit their relatives and the Bayview administration, giving us a hilarious and highly unorthodox view of aging. You will laugh yourself sore at their conversations and their adventures. You will also feel their deep concern for each other and their fellow residents, usually masked by outrageous actions and speech.

Some of the funniest moments occur when Diana "borrows" her niece's Porsche, Diana and Tom disrupt a boring christening, put on a great "senile" act for a visiting psychiatrist, and make hash out of the aspirations of a local politician. Never underestimate the power of an old lady hanging out of a helicopter doing aerial photography.

Why did it take so long for this series to be issued on DVD? Now that it has, let's hope we eventually have all of it available. Season 2, here I come! My trusty VISA card trembles in terror every time a bunch of these great British comedies makes it to DVDs.

Excellent!!.......2007-06-04

Excellent British comedy. Love the Diana and Tom characters. 5 stars all the way.

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Waiting...

Waiting... (Unrated and Raw) [Blu-ray]
Starring: Don Brady , Pat Hazell , Wendie Malick , Luis Guzman , and Alanna Ubach
Director: Rob McKittrick
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ASIN: B000PMGS6S
Release Date: 2007-07-17

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Always remember the cardinal rule of eating out: Never mess with people who handle your food! Ryan Reynolds (VAN WILDER), Anna Farris (the SCARY MOVIE series) and Justin Long (DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY) star in this hilarious comedy about the band of mischievous waiters, waitresses and cooks just waiting to show guests how extraordinary the service at ShenaniganZ restaurant can be.

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Waiting... .......2007-08-26

this movie has me laughing the whole time I've seen it 5 times already, a must have for anyone who ever eats out.

Waiting... (Two-Disc Full Screen Edition)

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funny
I'm still waiting
Incredible

Waiting... (Two-Disc Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Don Brady , Pat Hazell , Wendie Malick , Luis Guzman , and Alanna Ubach
Director: Rob McKittrick
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ASIN: B000CPH9Q6
Release Date: 2006-02-07

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funny.......2007-08-23

hilarious movie with lots of laughs but it makes you not want to go to a restaurant for awhile :)

I'm still waiting.......2006-07-20

Workplace comedies are something that strike a chord in us all -- most people have held less-than-glamorous tuition-paying jobs, and sometimes resented the people we have been forced to deal with politely. No tips. Annoying coworkers. Twerpy customers who just don't get it, at all.

That's the main idea of Rob McKittrick's "Waiting...", a pale imitation of Kevin Smiths' breakout film "Clerks." It could have been a delightful comedy in the vein of "Office Space," but alas, we get a pale, rather cliched comedy with a few gem-like moments.

Mitch (John Francis Daley) is starting his first day on the job at Shenanigan's, and he rapidly learns that the ropes are tangled and grubby. There's a philosophical dishwasher (Chi McBride), a smart-aleck, the nice guy with issues, a snarling dominatrix, and a sexpot waittress. And that's only the beginning...

Though Shenanigan's seems normal, there are drunken parties, crazed employees, and food seasoned with dandruff. With disdain for the customers and for each other, the employees spar, stare, and make jokes that will instantly offend gays, women and people with Down Syndrome. Can Dean (Justin Long) manage to get a decent job, or will he sink into the mire of Shenanigan's kitchen?

Anybody who has ever worked a minimum wage job like this will know that it's a gold mine for comedy. I myself have fond memories of a coworker going ballistic when a customer demanded that she spread the cream cheese for him. Unfortunately, that kind of delightful comedy isn't present. Instead, we get armpit-noise-level stuff -- bodily substances being spread on food, and so on.

Even crude films can be funny... but this one isn't. It's just moronic. McKittrick tries to spice it up with stuff like the "Penis Game" and workplace Lolitas, but it's a bit like trying to rescuscitate a week-old dead moose. Even the name of the restaurant is lame -- okay, Shenanigan's, we get it. The place has shenanigans. It's not really very funny anyway.

The characters are all cliches of the slacker worker, and they are so uniformly nasty that you really hope they rot behind those counters. It's a credit to the actors that they manage to inject any humour at all; Daley of "Freaks and Geeks" fame is the most entertaining character of all, and the only one that shows a spark of life.

The only thing that could be as bad as working at Shenanigan's is watching a gross-out comedy full of obnoxious stereotypes. You won't laugh. You'll just leave feeling bitter and queasy.

Incredible.......2006-01-12

This is an incredible movie. I saw it in theatres the day it came out. I have my phone alarm set for the minute I get out of school on Febuary 7th (when it comes out on DVD) to go get it.

BUY IT

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A Formidable Achievement
What a let-down!
An Abomination
A great collection for novices and seasoned Beckettians alike
A real score for Beckett aficionados

Beckett on Film DVD Set
Starring: Barry McGovern , Johnny Murphy , Alan Stanford , Stephen Brennan , and Sam McGovern
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ASIN: B00006FXQN
Release Date: 2002-07-22

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The hugely ambitious Beckett on Film project gathered together 19 different directors to turn the 19 stage works written by Samuel Beckett into films. The range is vast--from the 45-second Breath to the two hours of his most famous play, Waiting for Godot--but all the works reflect Beckett's penetrating obsessions with memory, regret, and the simple, excruciating experience of being. Not every film succeeds--like all great theater, Beckett's plays demand interaction with a live audience to express their full intent--and though scholars tout Beckett's every word as genius, several works are slight (Catastrophe, Ohio Impromptu, or What Where will leave many viewers unimpressed). But all the plays feature Beckett's uniquely distilled language; the greatest of them--including Waiting for Godot (in which two tramps pass the time while they wait for someone who may never come), Endgame (in which a blind man and his lame servant bicker and joke as the world declines), and Play (in which a love triangle is bitterly recalled by two women and a man in urns)--are astonishing in both their potent humor and piercing grief.

Though Beckett's stature drew in an impressive array of directors (including Anthony Minghella, Patricia Rozema, and Neil Jordan) and actors (including Jeremy Irons, Julianne Moore, Alan Rickman, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Michael Gambon, and John Gielgud), some of the finest work comes from relative unknowns. But the gem of the collection is Krapp's Last Tape, about an old man revisiting his life through recordings he has made throughout his years. It's the perfect marriage of text, actor (the incomparable John Hurt), and director (Atom Egoyan, The Sweet Hereafter); in their hands, the play spins from deeply funny to deeply sad, all with only the slightest dim of the light in Hurt's eyes. --Bret Fetzer

Description

The first ever cinematic screening of all 19 of Samuel Beckett's plays. The acclaimed Beckett on Film project brings together some of the most distinguished directors and actors working today. Directors include Atom Egoyan, Damien Hirst, Neil Jordan, Conor McPherson, Damien O'Donnell, David Mamet, Anthony Minghella, Karel Reisz and Patricia Rozema. The exceptional acting talent involved includes Michael Gambon, the late Sir John Gielgud, John

Hurt, Jeremy Irons, Julianne Moore, Harold Pinter, Alan Rickman and Kristen Scott-Thomas.

Probably the most significant Irish playwright of the 20th century, Beckett has influenced generations of directors and talent in film, television and theatre.

Several of the films from the Beckett on Film Project have been exhibited at international film festivals around the world including New York, Toronto and Venice.

Programs in the series include:

* Waiting for Godot (running time: 2 hours)

* Not I (running time: 14 minutes)

* Rough for Theatre I (running time: 20 minutes)

* Ohio Impromptu (running time: 12 minutes)

* Krapp's Last Tape (running time: 58 minutes)

* What Where (running time: 12 minutes)

* Footfalls (running time: 28 minutes)

* Come and Go (running time: 8 minutes)

* Act Without Words I (running time: 16 minutes)

* Happy Days (running time: 1 hour 19 minutes)

* Catastrophe (running time: 7 minutes)

* Rough for Theatre II (running time: 30 minutes)

* Breath (running time: 45 seconds)

* That Time (running time: 20 minutes)

* Endgame (running time: 1 hour 24 minutes)

* Act Without Words II (running time: 11 minutes)

* A Piece of Monologue (running time: 20 minutes)

* Play (running time: 16 minutes)

* Rockaby (running time: 14 minutes)

* Plus a 52 minute Documentary on the making of the Beckett on Film Project

The series includes 19 plays & a documentary on 4 DVD's plus a Souvenir Book in an attractive Giftbox set.

Customer Reviews:

A Formidable Achievement.......2006-07-02

The fact that this DVD set exists at all is cause for ecstatic and superlative praise: at last we have nearly all the plays of one of the 20th century's most technically innovative--but also emotionally affecting and eloquent--dramatists, available together in professional productions created with sympathy, respect for the author's intentions, and often inspired insight into these works' theatrical potential.

Because this box set presents the work of 19 different directors, each working with a different play, it is inevitable that this collection would be uneven: the most disappointing performances, in my opinion, are drawn from the most familar works: Endgame, in particular, suffers from an awkward rhythm and rushed delivery which violates both the general sense of the work as well as several of its most memorable and touching sequences.

There are nonetheless many very pleasant surprises among these performances, none more welcome than Julianne Moore's extraordinary rendition of "Not I." John Hurt's version of "Krapp's Last Tape" will similarly, I think, come to be regarded as definitive, as will the idiosyncratic collaboration among David Mamet, Harold Pinter, and the late Sir John Gielguld in "Catastrophe." Most revelatory of all is the rendition of "Rough for Theatre II," which turns what reads in print as an ostensibly inconsequential fragment into a nuanced and perhaps uniquely detailed contribution to the Beckett canon.

Perhaps the greatest mystery in a package promising to be "the comprehensive cinematic interpretation of Beckett's plays" are the omissions here, most surprisingly his several works--"Eh Joe,' "Nacht und Traume," "...but the clouds," among others--for television. One also wonders, given the extraordinarily generous resources at the producers' disposal, if it was only the Beckett estate that prevented a mounting of the author's great deskdrawer drama Eleutheria, or the early fragment "Human Wishes."

The fact that this set is easily available, and that it contains so many highlights, ultimately overrides any disappointments. The price of this collection probably puts it out of reach of all but the most devoted fans of Samuel Beckett--which is also a shame, because many of these performances would refute the unreflective complaints that Beckett's work is boring, emotionally arid, or depressing. Were the set less expensive, it would help win for Beckett a popular audience commensurate with his contribution to contemporary literature and theatre. But for those of us lucky enough to own a copy, there is much to enjoy, contemplate, and re-play for years to come.

What a let-down!.......2006-04-27

I have seen this twice through now & have concluded that the best places to experience Samuel Beckett's quintessential words are on the printed page or on obscure stages (like San Quentin prison).

Most of the productions in this package seek only to bring attention to themselves (the single exception being John Hurt & Atom Egoyan's perfect Krapp's Last Tape) - they are for the most part overdirected & overacted to the hilt.

An Abomination.......2006-04-15

With great anticipation and relish i awaited this accumulation of the works of probably one of the greatest playwrites of the 20th century. Having seen a short promotional film of the project, my eagerness was picqued.But, alas, flash, star-worship and diminished expectations rule once again in this travesty. Having actually not even been able to sit through the Endgame of this set, and having also seen the foolish, punk-flash version of Breath, and the unsympathetic and misunderstood, braindead interpretation of Not I, i am so appalled i nearly whipped this weighty and overly expensive set, frisbee-like,out the window.
It never ceases to amaze how so much star power can do so much damage. Remember the Broadway travesty of Godot a few years ago with Robin Williams?
So, Engame is a beautiful performance. all the Gaelic colloquial nuance of Beckett's language,perfectly understood and delivered in a heightened naturalism that is a joy to behold. The only problem is, one can NOT behold it because of the hack direction. Done in obsessively Television Direction School multi-camera work, anytime a charecter speaks or moves he is held in extreme talking-head close-up. next actor speaks, close up for him, then back to the other actor and so on and so on until the stomach of the viewer churns from this sea-sick demntia of camera close-ups,reaction shots, two shots and flashing long shots. So you don't have a play, or a film, you end up with a Television show of utter convention and utter unwatchability. i suggest people stay away from this possibly well-intentioned but decadent and unwatchable and expensive lump of Beckett Meets Hollywood by way of London.

A great collection for novices and seasoned Beckettians alike.......2006-03-10

The greats of the Irish and English stage and screen come together in this masterfully produced collection.

Conor McPherson's version of "Endgame" nearly justifies the price tag all by its lonesome. The acting is dynamic and finely tuned, and McPherson's lens captures every detail. Other standouts include "Ohio Impromptu" (starring Jeremy Irons in a tour de force double role), "Rough for the Theatre I", and "Rough for the Theatre II" (where Jim Norton and others turn this uneven early work into an emotional time-bomb).

Not every adaptation is up to par. "Not I", starring Julianne Moore, takes the high modernist idea of actor-as-automaton a bit too literally, blurring the language into incoherence and robbing the script of its rich texture. "A Piece of Monologue" also misses the mark in this low-energy adaptation.

All in all, though, I would heartily recommend this collection, especially to academics and serious theater artists. It is clear enough to serve as an representative introduction to Beckett's work, and it is masterful enough to enrich a seasoned Beckettian's understanding of these plays.

A real score for Beckett aficionados.......2005-07-07

Not to gush, but many of the versions in this set far surpass my expectations of film adaptations of theatre. For instance, "Endgame" is brilliantly realized, with finely nuanced acting. Top talent on both sides of the camera, often visually arresting works. Really great stuff for any Beckett or experimental theatre enthusiast. Pricey, but worth it.

Christopher Guest Collection (A Mighty Wind / Best in Show / Waiting for Guffman)

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You either love it or hate it----and I love it
i've talked about brittish comedy at its best but now here's american comedy at its best
great films, poor packaging
Three great movies, but what's so special about the price?
Fantastic Movies, Terrible Presentation

Christopher Guest Collection (A Mighty Wind / Best in Show / Waiting for Guffman)
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Release Date: 2003-09-23

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A Mighty Wind
There's A Mighty Wind a-blowin', along with the gales of laughter you'll get from Christopher Guest's third exercise in brilliant "mockumentary." After tackling small-town theatricals in Waiting for Guffman and obsessive dog-show contestants in Best in Show, Guest and his reliable stable of repertory players (including Fred Willard, Parker Posey, and Bob Balaban) apply their improvisational genius to a latter-day reunion of fictional '60s-era folk singers, a comedic goldmine that Guest first explored 30 years earlier on The National Lampoon Radio Hour. Collaborating with costar and cowriter Eugene Levy (who gives the film's funniest performance), Guest is so delicate in his satirical approach that the laughs aren't always obvious, and the subtlety can be as wistful (as in Catherine O'Hara's performance as Levy's auto-harpist partner) as it is hilarious. Some may wish for more blatant comedy, but that would compromise the genuine affection that Guest & Co. have for the music they're spoofing. --Jeff Shannon

Best in Show
Christopher Guest, the man behind Waiting for Guffman, turns his comic eye on another little world that takes itself a bit too seriously: the world of competitive dog shows. Best in Show follows a clutch of dog owners as they prepare and preen their dogs to win a national competition. They include the yuppie pair (Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock) who fear they've traumatized their Weimaraner by having sex in front of him; a suburban husband and wife (Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara) with a terrier and a long history of previous lovers on the wife's part; the Southern owner of a bloodhound (Guest himself) with aspirations as a ventriloquist; and many more. Following the same "mockumentary" format of Spinal Tap and Guffman, Best in Show takes in some of the dog show officials, the manager of a nearby hotel that allows dogs to stay there, and the commentators of the competition (a particularly knockout comic turn by Fred Willard as an oafish announcer). The movie manages to paint an affectionate portrait of its quirky characters without ever losing sight of the ridiculousness of their obsessive world. Almost all of the scenes were created through improvisation. While lacking the overall focus of a written script, Best in Show captures hilarious and absurd aspects of human behavior that could never be written down. The movie's success is a testament to both the talent of the actors and Guest's discerning eye. --Bret Fetzer

Waiting for Guffman
One of the funniest films in many a moon was hiding at art house theaters in 1998. Former Saturday Night Live comedian and Spinal Tap member Christopher Guest creates the ultimate parody of small-town dramatics, Waiting for Guffman. Corky St. Claire (Guest), an overwhelming drama director hiding out in Blaine, Missouri, thinks he has found the vehicle to put him back on Broadway: the city's 150th anniversary play, Red, White, and Blaine. As rehearsals start, we learn of the town's history ("the stool capital of the world") including a brush with a UFO. The mockumentary follows the various townsfolk wishing for stardom: Parker Posey as a Dairy Queen clerk, Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard as stage-struck travel agents, Matthew Keeslar as the town's bad boy, and Eugene Levy (who cowrote the film with Guest) as a dentist who dreams of glory on the stage. The film is a hoot from beginning to end, and be sure to watch the closing credits. Fans of Guest's deft dry humor should not miss his other parody of the entertainment world, The Big Picture (Kevin Bacon as a student filmmaker who goes to Hollywood). --Doug Thomas

Description

A MIGHTY WIND: Documentary-style Comedy. Christopher Guest follows up his acclaimed ensemble comedies Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman with a docu-comedy about three folk groups from the 60s who reunite for a memorial concert in New York City following the death of a legendary folk manager. BEST IN SHOW: The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives -- the Mayflower Dog Show. WAITING FOR GUFFMAN: A town of Blaine, Missouri is preparing for celebrations of its 150th anniversary. Corky St.Clair, an off-off-off-off-off-Broadway director is putting together an amateur theater show about the town's history, starring a local dentist, a couple of travel agents, a Dairy Queen waitress, and a car repairman. He invites a Broadway theater critic Mr. Guffman to see the opening night of the show

Customer Reviews:

You either love it or hate it----and I love it.......2007-01-03

I admit to an unexplained fondness for clever parody and satire. These three films by Christopher Guest fall right into my slot. Each highlights a different form of unwarranted self-importance, but rarely crosses the line of easy insults or demeaning caricature. The realism is ----well, very real (although it doesn't go to 11 as in an earlier semi-related film).

All the characters are clearly drawn from real life. Although employing many of the same actors in diverse roles, the films allow each individual improv performer to shine a unique light that fully illuminates the target subjects. My two 20-ish daugthers and I often quote from these films. The biting wit is timeless. Outstanding talent, craftsmanship, and creativity forms the heart of all these stories. Very, very funny stuff.

i've talked about brittish comedy at its best but now here's american comedy at its best.......2006-08-18

great and hillarious!!! a mighty wind, best in show, waiting for guffman...i have watched theses movies countless times and it still shockes me how funny and side splitting these perfectly hillarious movies are!!!

a must get for everyone out there!!!

great films, poor packaging.......2005-02-04

The DVDs are great. They have lots of great extras, including commentary on additional scenes, insightful commentary in general, cast bios, etc. I was disappointed in the packaging -- flimsy cardboard and are smaller than more traditional packages.

I received these as a gift, and I think that as a gift, they are great.

I have watched these films over and over again and enjoy them each time. The acting is incredible and it amazes me that it's improvised -- the actors make it look so easy, which means it must be difficult! In A Mighty Wind, all the actors sing and play their own instruments, with some learning just for this film. Great dedication to their artform.

Three great movies, but what's so special about the price?.......2004-01-12

I'm tempted to dock one star mainly because you'd actually pay LESS buying them separately than in this "special" package. ($14.99 each for Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, $23.76 for Mighty Wind = $53.74). The three-fer costs over $55. What gives? Well, I suppose you save something on shipping.

Regardless, these three films are easily worth the money at either price.

Fantastic Movies, Terrible Presentation.......2004-01-09

Boo, Warner Brothers!!!

You've taken three amazing movies and packaged them terribly.

I was extremely excited to have received this "box set" for Christmas, until I unwrapped it. It's three seperate loose DVDs with no box to tie them all together. And to add insult to injury, all of the DVDs are encased in the old-school type packaging with the cheap cardboard cover and black "snap" latch.

Very disappointing. Warner Brothers SUCKS! They really need to work on how they showcase their work on DVD in the future. They could take a real hint from New Line which always releases their best films with pride and flair.

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At a rundown bus station in rural Cuba, the line of passengers waiting just keeps getting longer. The problem is that every bus that passes by is already full. Their only hope is to wait for the station's bus to be fixed. As the disparate group settles in, relationships start forming between the passengers: Emilio (Vladimir Cruz), a young engineer, becomes smitten with a beautiful young woman (Thaimi Alvarino) who is en route to meet her Spanish fiancé, a blind man (Jorge Perugorria) gets support from the others to go to the head of the line. Frustration and disorder reign when the one bus brakes down and no one can leave. Resigned to working together, the group magically transforms the station into a beautiful place where no one wants to leave. Award-winning director Juan Carlos Tabío (Strawberry and Chocolate) successfully blends magical realism and social commentary in this crowd-pleasing romantic comedy. DVD: 5.1, Interview/Making Of, subtitle control, trailer, weblinks

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Juan Carlos Tabýo has done it again .......2006-04-09

In case you are not familiar with the name, it was Juan Carlos Tab?o who co-directed Tom?s Guti?rrez Alea's last two films ("Strawberry & Chocolate" and "Guantanamera"). I highly recommend THEM as well.

Tab?o's films are definitely NOT for the average audience in the United States. Most of us are too braindead to appreciate his brilliant creativity and his subtle messages. But for those of us old enough to appreciate the films created in Hollywood prior to Star Wars, and for those of us who appreciate slightly offbeat plots and outstanding character development, Juan Carlos Tab?o's films are a treasure.

Tab?o is a genius whose comprehension of human nature is as keen as Steinbeck's. But that is where the similarity ends. His sense of irony takes his plots into the realm of "theatre of the absurd". Or is it just the absurdity of LIFE that accomplishes this FOR him? Here, passengers are trapped in a remote bus terminal -- the buses always pass full, and none of the awaiting passengers can board. They are stranded. And how they -- as typically resourceful Cubans -- deal with this situation is the rest of the story, part of it dream, and part of it real, but ... which is WHICH? And once they DO get the chance to leave the terminal, do they really WANT to? Or have the relationships they've established become more enduring than the one's they knew outside of the terminal? Is the terminal a microcosmic analogy for the island of Cuba itself? Determine that for yourself as you enjoy this brilliantly conceived and brilliantly produced movie.

This is a heavy film, but with plenty of humourous moments. It includes many of Cuba's finest actors, and a script written by one of the greatest directors in the world. DON'T MISS IT.

A Lesson for Life.......2005-07-21

This movie develops in a Cuban Bus Terminal when a bunch of people find themselves stocked there because the only autobus available for service is broken. With no other choice, the terminal is now their home. For me, it was like the cuban version of "The Terminal". The film contains a pretty straightforward message: A Happy life is not about what you have, it is about what you share.

An Allegory of the Potential Latent in Common Interest.......2005-03-21

Waiting List is an excellent allegory on how the recognition of common interest, especially under conditions of scarcity, can naturally lead to collective action that benefits all in ways not imagined initially.

The movie opens at a bus station where would-be passengers selfishly compete for the few seats on the buses that stop at the station en route to other destinations. The figure of the scarcities produced by capitalist economies is obvious.

The bus station has its own bus, but it is broken down. The necessity of repairing the bus, as well as finding food to feed everyone stranded at the bus station for several days, causes the would-be passengers to move from understanding their interests individually and selfishly to understanding them collectively. Once they realize their interests collectively, the characters and their aspirations are transformed in a manner that seems natural.

At first a few qualified leaders emerge to harness the collective will and interests of the passengers by motivating them and providing them direction. However, in due course the leadership "withers away" because the passengers begin to actualize their unique talents and potential for the common good--abilities, in some cases, that have lain dormant for years. This is an apparent analogy to the Marxist belief that socialist societies will require the direction of a vanguard of communist visionaries and leaders until a communist societies evolve which require no leadership at all. In my view, the plot's ability to allegorize the naturalness of this evolution is its best achievement.

In time the passengers transform the bus station physically and spiritually as well. The bus station ceases to be a point of departure and becomes a point of arrival because the passengers discover community, solidarity, love and sustenance simply by pursuing their common interests collectively. The bus station becomes home, and the passengers want to remain in the community that the bus station provides because the solidarity and equality they've discovered is now understood as what they've really wanted all of their lives. The movie pulls all of this off masterfully.

But then the film surprises us. We discover that the events (the substance of the allegory) were a collective dream held by the passengers during the course of one night. Yet the dream alone, absent its realization, benefits the passengers in obvious ways. They now relate to one another out of their awakened sense of common interest and altruism as demonstrated by the help they provide one another to travel to their separate destinations. In essence, once the film persuades us that this communistic society was real, it then jolts us with the realization that such a society is as yet an unrealized dream. We are brought back to reality (to the circumstances that opened the film), but now reality is charged with the potential of collective fulfillment.

I have one issue with the film. During the dream sequence, one of the characters dies. The death seems to have no purpose other than to make the film's message about the possibility of collective fulfillment explicit during the stationmaster's eulogy. The film could trust itself more. It doesn't need to explicitly "tell" us its message. It has masterfully shown us its message already.

This is another Cuban film of remarkable acting, direction, subtlety and insight. It is well worth purchasing.

A Major Message from a Simple Story.......2005-03-08

Writer/Director Juan Carlos Tabio ('Strawberry and Chocolate', 'Guantanamera', etc) brings to Cuban cinema a very special quality of color and light that makes the people of this island appear to have their priorities better in line than in countries without the problems of dictatorship. Written with Senel Paz based on a story by Arturo Aranjo, WAITING LIST is a film about how people respond under less than positive circumstances and how such interaction produces community and understanding and love.

Set in a dilapidated seaside bus station Tabio sets in motion his story with the arrival of Emilio (Vladimir Cruz - memorable for his work with Tabio in 'Strawberry and Chocolate'), a handsome and kind Engineer who, having agreed to work his ailing father's farm until he can afford to return to his career for which he has been studying, seeks to travel to his country home. The station is full of irate people, each arguing a case for who should be first on the next bus to pass through. It seems the station's own bus is inoperable and the people must wait for the rare other buses to take them to Havana or to Santiago.

The group of people include a variety of ages, many who have lost their dreams, some who are belligerently self-centered, a 'blind man' Rolando (Jorge Perugorria - also from 'Strawberry and Chocolate') who is faking being blind to gain favor with the others, a bruja who guarantees resolution to any problems by using her herbs, two men who appear inseparable and very young in their view of life, mothers with children, retired couples missing the love of youth, etc. The stationmaster tries to calm the crowd, finally 'fixing 'the station bus, only to have it collapse again!

Emilio and Rolando slowly engage the stranded folk and convince them the bus can be fixed. During all this time Emilio has his eye on Jacqueline (Thaimi Alvarino - a very fine and sensuous actress) who is panicked that she will not make it to Havana to me her fiancé who is coming from Madrid to marry her: Jacqueline is obviously likewise attracted to the handsome kind stranger! Once the focus of the mission to repair the bus is established, the newly friendly folk set about to make the best of what they have. Night comes, all sleep, and at this point Tabio transforms his story with Latin American Magical Realism that is as tender, celebratory and lovely as any on film.

The ending of the story has to do with waking up to reality and how the shared dream has transformed the lives of everyone. To say more would dispel some of the magic this film holds. The acting is superb, the atmosphere is both very real and very imagined, and it all works extremely well. This little film is a breath of fresh Caribbean air! Grady Harp, March 05

BEST CUBAN FILM SINCE MEMORIES OF THE UNDER DEVELOPMENT.......2004-11-25

It is a testament to the producers and writers they were able to do this film in a way that did not ruffle the feathers of state sensors. The movie is a delightful story for all ages and is able to poke fun at how people living in a dysfunctional governmental system are able to over come challenges. Films such as these show that big budgets do not always equal big quality. Hollywood can learn from the Third World Film Industry.

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