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Title: Best in Show (2000)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jay Brazeau | ... | Dr. Chuck Nelken | |
| Parker Posey | ... | Meg Swan | |
| Michael Hitchcock | ... | Hamilton Swan | |
| Catherine O'Hara | ... | Cookie Fleck | |
| Eugene Levy | ... | Gerry Fleck | |
| Carrie Aizley | ... | Fern City Show Spectator | |
| Lewis Arquette | ... | Fern City Show Spectator | |
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Dany Canino | ... | Fern City Show Judge |
| Bob Balaban | ... | Dr. Theodore W. Millbank, III | |
| Will Sasso | ... | Fishin' Hole Guy | |
| Stephen E. Miller | ... | Fishin' Hole Guy | |
| Christopher Guest | ... | Harlan Pepper | |
| Michael McKean | ... | Stefan Vanderhoof | |
| John Michael Higgins | ... | Scott Donlan | |
| Colin Cunningham | ... | New York Butcher | |
The owners (and handlers) of five show dogs head for the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. A film crew interviews them as they prepare for the trip, arrive at Philly's Taft Hotel, and compete. From Florida come the Flecks: she keeps running into old lovers. A wordless ancient in a wheelchair and his buxom trophy wife who may have a thing for the dog's handler own the two-time defending best in show, a poodle. From the piney woods of N.C. comes a fella who wants to be a ventriloquist. High-strung DINKs feud loudly in front of their Weimaraner. Two outré gay men from Tribeca round out the profiled owners. The dog show brings out the essence of the humans. Who will be best in show? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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You would almost have to have seen the dog show world first hand to understand all the delicious inside jokes, but even if the extent of your dog show experience is an occasional glimpse of the Westminster Dog Show telecast, you'll howl with laughter.
Conformation dog showing is a world of illusion in which everyone tries to make perfect dogs out of something less. Best in Show strips the illusion away in a brutal satire that undoubtedly had every dog person on the planet cringing in horror and delight. "Isn't that just like so-and-so?" and "I'm nothing like that!"
Christopher Guest may have topped his supreme masterpiece "Spinal Tap" with this signature mockumentary in which he skewers all of dogdom. You will recognize Fred Willard's vapid and obnoxious television host as none other than Joe what's his name from Westminster, and the tension between him and Trevor Beckwith (Jim Piddock) is a thinly veiled roman a clef of David and Joe at the Big Show.
There are a few gaffs, like the fact at all the dogs at the Show are supposed to be champions before entry, but that doesn't detract from the fun. John Michael Higgins, who steals the show as the uninhibited handler, and Michael McKean are hilarious as the gay couple going out of their way to be outre. Co-writer Eugene Levy (American Pie) is perfect as the husband finding out that his wife Catherine O'Hara might be Miss Congeniality of all time. I also loved Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock as the overwrought yuppie couple who project all their angst on their poor dog. Larry Miller turns in a great cameo as one of the countless men in O'Hara's past.
A lot of people didn't get this gem. To them I can only say Bad Dog, Bad Dog! For the rest of us, it's Sit, Stay, and Enjoy!