Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 08/21/2001
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Por
Dubbed: English
Sound: 2/5.1
Run Time: 84 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
The city of Blaine, Missouri is celebrating its sesquicentennial, and what better reason could there be to put on a show? Corky St. Claire (
Christopher Guest), current leader of Blaine's community theater group and creator of a stage musical version of
Backdraft that led to the unfortunate destruction of the theater, has been commissioned to put together a musical about the city's noble history, "Red, White and Blaine," which stars a variety of the town's theatrical talent. Corky's cast includes Ron and Sheila Albertson (
Fred Willard and
Catherine O'Hara), a pair of married travel agents that Corky calls "the Lunts of Blaine;" Allan Pearl (
Eugene Levy), a dentist who insists that he wasn't the class clown in high school but did sit next to him; Libby Mae Brown (
Parker Posey), a sweet young thing who lives for her job at the Dairy Queen; and Clifford Wooley (
Lewis Arquette), an "Old Blainian" who makes gun racks from deer hooves. Somehow, Corky has persuaded a major theatrical producer in New York to send a representative to look at the show -- is it possible that "Red, White and Blaine" could be headed to Broadway?
Christopher Guest directed and co-wrote this very funny mock-documentary, in addition to playing the flamboyant Corky; Guests's partners from
This Is Spinal Tap,
Michael McKean and
Harry Shearer, helped write the memorable songs for "Red, White and Blaine."
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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