FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, FROM THE GROUP THAT BROUGHT YOU " BEST IN SHOW" WAITING FOR GUFFMAN" AND MY FAVORITE " A MIGHTY WIND" BRING YOU THEIR NEWEST FILM "FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION". 

 

THE FILM " FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION" STARS THE SAME TROUPE, BUT THIS TIME THEY ARE STARING IN A LOW BUDGET HOLLYWOOD FILM CALLED "HOME FOR PURIM"  CHRISTOPHER GUEST PLAYS JAY BERMAN. THE DIRECTOR. CATHERINE O'HARA PLAYS MARILYN HACK, A C LIST ACTRESS THAT IS LOOKING FOR HER OSCAR.  HARRY SHEARER PLAYS VICTOR, ANOTHER STRUGGLING ACTOR ALONG WITH PARKER POSEY AND CHRISTOPHER MOYNIHAN WHO MAKE UP THE CAST OF "HOME FOR PURIM"

 

ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN YOU HAVE EUGENE LEVY AS MORLEY ORFKIN AN AGENT, AND JOHN MICHAEL HIGGINS AS THE PUBLICIST.  THE REST OF THE TROUPE PLAY IN ROLES AS TV REPORTERS, WRITERS AND PRODUCERS.

 

THE FILM "FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION" IS ONE OF THOSE FILMS THAT YOU GO INTO HOPING THAT IT IS AT LEAST 1/2 GOOD AS ITS PREDECESER. THIS FILM IS NOT 1/10 ITS PREDECESER.  I AM NOT GOING TO SAY THAT I HATED THIS FILM. THAT IS NOT THE CASE. I DID FIND THE FILM TO BE FLAT. I WANT MOCUMENTRY. I WANT TO KNOW WHO THE CHARACTERS ARE THAT ARE IN THE FILM. DON'T GO DRAMA ON ME WHEN THE SO CALLED MOCKUMENTRY CONCEPT HAS WORKED WELL IN THE PAST.  THIS FILM LACKED FLAVOR. IT LACKED SUBSTANCE. IF YOU GO TO SEE "FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION" EXPECTING " A MIGHTY WIND" I AM WARNING YOU "YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED.  I AM GIVING "FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION" 2 STARS.

 

 

(c) 2006 Brian Gall