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Plot Summary
Debut feature director Jay Berman (Christopher Guest), steers cast and crew through a typically tumultuous independent film Home for Purim, an intimate period drama about a Jewish family's turbulent reunion on the occasion of the dying matriarch's favorite holiday. When Internet-generated rumors begin circulating that three of Purim's stars -- faded luminary Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara), journeyman actor and former hot dog pitchman Victor Allan Miller (Harry Shearer), and ingenue Callie Webb (Parker Posey) -- may be perpetrating Award-worthy performances, a rumble of excitement rattles the cast. Once "Hollywood Now" anchors Chuck Porter (Fred Willard) and Cindy Martin (Jane Lynch) pick up the buzz, Award fever infects the entire production. Unit publicist Corey Taft (John Michael Higgins), talent agent Morley Orfkin (Eugene Levy), and producer Whitney Taylor Brown (Jennifer Coolidge) all smell the sudden potential for a sleeper hit. As does Sunfish Classics President Martin Gibb (Ricky Gervais), who suggests some last-minute changes to the film that he feels will broaden the film's appeal. Meanwhile, Purim's screenwriters, Lane Iverson (Michael McKean) and Philip Koontz (Bob Balaban) grow steadily more horrified as they watch the first film adaptation of their work diverge from their original story. As the hopeful Purim team careens toward the end of production and the upcoming Award season, tenuous relationsh
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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51%- Reviews Counted: 160
- Fresh: 81
- Rotten: 79
- Average Rating: 5.8/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: In order to stay ahead as a mocker these days, you must nail your subject for good.
Fresh: Guest and his co-writer, Eugene Levy, aren't afraid to chew off the hand that feeds them.
Rotten: Individual scenes come across as amusing, but Guest loses comic momentum when he shifts between the shooting of the lachrymose Home for Purim and the segments lampooning entertainment media.
Fresh: For Your Consideration won't win an Oscar, but it probably will win some adulation from hard-core Guest fans.
Customer Reviews
This movie gets funnier every time you watch it
In my opinion, For Your Consideration is second only to Waiting for Guffman. Anyone who gives this movie one or two stars must have got dropped on their head when they were little.
Seriously Disappointing!
Wow. I've enjoyed Guest's past movies, to a greater or lesser degree, but this is a bomb. It's kind of interesting, but not really. We had to force ourselves to keep watching. After about 20 minutes, it got funny for about ten minutes, and then the rest of the movie just put us to sleep. Sadly, this movie is very much not recommended.
i strongly disagree with the above review
To me, this movie was every bit as great as Best In Show, A Mighty Wind and Waiting For Guffman....and, as is usually the case with the Guest movies, the more i've watched this film, the more i've enjoyed it. All the cast, as usual, have all the parts down perfectly. I highly recommend this movie to any fan of the above-mentioned movies.
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- $17.99
- Genre: Comedy
- Released: 2006
- © 2006 Shangri-La Entertainment, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Artwork: 2006 Warner Bros Entertainment Inc.