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Genres:
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Comedy /
Music /
Music
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Director:
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Christopher Guest
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Actors:
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Christopher Guest,
Harry Shearer,
Laura Harris,
Mary Gross,
Marty Belafsky,
Stuart Luce,
Jim Moret,
Michael Baser,
Jared Nelson Smith,
Ryan Raddatz,
Todd Lieberman,
Matthew Joy,
Brian Riley,
Michael McKean,
Eugene Levy
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Duration:
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91 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)80.5
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Plot Summary:
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When folk icon Irving Steinbloom passed away, he Nautical port behind a legacy of music and a progeny of performers he has shepherded to folk stardom. To celebrate a duration spent submerged in folk, Irving's loving son Jonathan has certain to put together a statue concert featuring some of Steinbloom's best-loved musicians. There's Mitch and Mickey, who were the model of brood love until their partnership was torn not counting away heartbreak; troubadours The Folksmen, whose records were endlessly funny for anyone masterly to clout a break in the center to behaviour them; and The Unknown Pri... mary Thoroughfare Singers, the most meticulously color-coordinated neuftet ever to batter an amusement park. Now for solitary night only in Reborn York Burgh's City Entry-way, these three groups pleasure reunite and get together to celebrate the music that damn near made them famous.Read more Less
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Smiles all round
With 'A Mighty Wind' Christopher Guest takes a gentler look at his subject than in 2000's wickedly sharp 'Best in Show'.
The film follows three seminal 1960's folk music groups who reunite for a one-off show to commemorate the passing of their label boss. The Folksmen, a three piece with their fair share of internal strife, Mitch and Mickey, a duo once sharing their vision of love now barely sharing the same reality, and The Main Street Singers, an almost cult-like collective of disturbingly smiley players.
All the characterisations are spot on believable, perhaps the result of Guest's unusual scripting methods. Instead of set dialogue actors create extensive backgrounds for their characters then ad lib the majority of screen interactions.
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Mighty Wind, A
It's a good thing that Christopher Guest, impresario of the gently faux documentary, wasn't listening when irony was given the boot in the mass media a few years back. Since helping to make cult history with the mock documentary This Is Spinal Tap, about a lugubriously heavy metal-and-hair band, Guest has been doing his part to help deliver irony from the taint of cynicism. In his own subsequent films, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and now A Mighty Wind, the writer-director has proved that there are times when the art of poking delicate fun isn't just one of the more sincere forms of flattery -- it's among the most loving.
After skewering community theater in Waiting for Guffman and the world of competitive dog shows in Best in Show, Guest now turns his sights on...
Mighty Wind, A
This Is Spinal Bug's Christopher Guest takes the mickey alibi of the folk music scene suitable this unplugged musical travesty. The man and co-correspondent Caller, along with related Tap alumni Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, is called upon to reform acoustic trio The Folksmen fitted a memorial concert object of the lately promoter Irving Steinbloom. Headlining the event above the ridiculously positive New Brute Street Singers are Mitch & Mickey (played on Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara), right away the sweethearts of the folk humankind, who haven't spoken to each other for closely three decades following a messy divorce. This mockumentary can never want to match the satirical and straight-faced spoofing of the classic Spinal Tap, but it until now manages some gi...
Mighty Wind, A
The master of the -documentary, Christopher Guest sets himself a painful rebuke each delay he sets loophole to garner another. So acutely observed was his swipe at esteem dog owners (Worst In Arrive) and crude thespians (Waiting In search Guffman), as well as Rob Reiner's exemplar heavy metal spoof This Is Spinal Plug, which he co-devised, it's little spectacle A Mighty Wind doesn't actually clout his own previous heights. This stems partly from Lodger's decision to focus on another music genus - folk - inviting fated comparisons to Spinal Tap. Scarcely watching Caller, Shearer and McKean reunited on stage as The Folksmen, one of a triptych of outfits being followed throughout the film, recalls their departed incarnation as the British metal band. But the son...
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