Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 04/16/2003(USA
Release Date: 09/23/2003
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
The writing and directing team who created
Waiting for Guffman and
Best in Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of
folk music in this sly
mockumentary.
Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the
folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s, and helped to nurture the careers of three of the best known acts of the era.
The Folksmen --
Mark Shubb (
Harry Shearer),
Alan Barrows (
Christopher Guest), and
Jerry Palter (
Michael McKean) -- were an earnest
folk trio who sang of America's noble past and the challenges of the future; they split up in the early '70s after a failed attempt to go electric.
Mitch & Mickey were a duo in both music and life, comprised of
Mitch Cohen (
Eugene Levy) and
Mickey Devlin (
Catherine O'Hara). They sang soulful songs of love until the collapse of their relationship sent
Mitch into a deep and incapacitating depression. And
The Main Street Singers were a nine-piece vocal group -- a "neuftet," as they prefer it -- who offered energetic good-time music, cranking out nearly 30 albums in the course of a decade; their current incarnation,
The New Main Street Singers (played by
Jane Lynch,
Parker Posey,
John Michael Higgins,
David Alan Blasucci,
Steve Pandis,
Christopher Moynihan,
Paul Dooley and
Patrick Sauber) is still on the road. When it is announced that the legendary
Irving Steinbloom has died (the character never appears in the film), his son
Jonathan (
Bob Balaban) decides that the best way to memorialize his father is through music, and with the help of
Mike LaFontaine (
Fred Willard) of Hi-Class Management, they set out to bring
The Folksmen,
Mitch & Mickey, and
The New Main Street Singers back together for a special concert at New York's Town Hall.
Christopher Guest,
Michael McKean, and
Harry Shearer -- who previously teamed up for
This Is Spinal Tap -- not only perform together as
The Folksmen in
A Mighty Wind, but composed most of the songs performed onscreen.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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