For Your Consideration--Trailer

Janae & I just watched "For Your Consideration"...another biting satire by Christopher Guest. This time, Guest attacks all the "Oscar Buzz" and self-promotion that occurs in Hollywood. "The Road to Purim" starts as a small indie film that gets caught up in the Oscar buzz. The principal actors in the film are considered to be leading candidates for Academy Award nominations and as the buzz about the movie heightens, the screenwriters are asked to tone down the "Jewishness" of the film and eventually the film gets renamed "Home for Thanksgiving". In typical Guest fashion, there is a lot of dark humor that sometimes borders on mean-spiritedness, but overall it is a very funny and perceptive film. All of the Guest film regulars are in the movie but Catherine O'Hara is particularly funny as Marilyn Hack.

Great line from the movie: Lane Iverson--"You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater because then all you have is a wet, critically injured baby."