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For Your Consideration (2006) 6.2
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6.2/10 from 10,026 users
Metascore: 68/100
Reviews: 146 user | 143 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz. Director:Christopher Guest |
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| Catherine O'Hara | ... | ||
| Stephen Rannazzisi | ... |
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| Ed Begley Jr. | ... | ||
| Eugene Levy | ... | ||
| Harry Shearer | ... | ||
| Christopher Moynihan | ... | ||
| Christopher Guest | ... | ||
| John Michael Higgins | ... | ||
| Carrie Aizley | ... | ||
| Stephanie Courtney | ... |
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Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors' lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood! Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Rated PG-13 for sexual references and brief language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
22 November 2006 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Es lebe Hollywood See more »Filming Locations:
Culver Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$12,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$372,012 (USA) (17 November 2006)Gross:
$5,542,025 (USA) (19 January 2007)Company Credits
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Written by Wesley Carr and Jeffrey C.J. Vanston (as CJ Vanston)
Performed by Wesley Carr
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In a bit of life imitating art, Catherine O'Hara received a large amount of Oscar buzz for her performance in this movie. She was nominated for and won several precursor awards, and many awards experts predicted she would receive an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Like her character in the movie, O'Hara failed to be nominated. See more »Goofs
In reality, the acting nominations are actually announced in alphabetical order based on the actors' last name. See more »Quotes
Whitney Taylor Brown: Someone's killed their children and made them into cookies, and I want to go see that.See more »
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"Say My Name"Written by Wesley Carr and Jeffrey C.J. Vanston (as CJ Vanston)
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I'm also surprised by some of the negative commentary around 'For your Consideration'. The satire seemed to me to be to be quite precise - particularly in its analysis of the average actor's life - which is a lot more like "For Your Consideration" or Ricky Gervais's brilliant "The Extras" than anything you're likely to see on Entertainment Tonight that is for sure.
Having studied method acting over several years (a long time ago), and having worked as an extra at different low points in my life (never ever again), I have to say that I laughed till I cried. Without giving the ending away,Marilyn Hacke's closing scene is so on the money - what a cracker!
Acting, actor training and film are all open to exploitation of the gullible because so many people are desperate to be part of it; consequently it's an area ripe for satire. For me, this was more on the money than "Waiting for Guffman" although I enjoyed that too. For your consideration has sharper edges. I think it's great that Ricky Gervais performs in this film. Gervaise is such an 'English' comic whilst Guest's sensibilities are very American - but in the shared fascination with human idiosyncracies, banalities and foibles, they both create a very contemporary form of the comedy of manners.