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In this special bonus episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996, we’re talking about Christopher Guest’s influential comedy Waiting for Guffman. Directed and co-written (with Eugene Levy) by Christopher Guest and starring Guest, Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey and Bob Balaban, Waiting for Guffman premiered at the 1996 Boston Film Festival and was released in theaters in early 1997.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/waiting-for-guffman-1997), Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1997/02/14/waiting-guffman-3/), and Ruthe Stein in the San Francisco Chronicle (https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Guffman-Plays-Small-Town-for-Big-Laughs-2850414.php).

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