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Name: A Mighty Wind
Released: 2003-4-16
Cast: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Christopher Moynihan

A Mighty Wind

PG-13
1h 31m
2003

87%

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Christopher Guest, director of "Waiting for Guffman" and "Best in Show", returns with another mockumentary. When folk icon Irving Steinbloom passed away, he left a legacy of music and a family of performers he had shepherded to folk stardom: Mitch & Mickey (Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hare) were the epitome of young love until their partnership was torn apart by heartbreak; classic troubadours The Folkman (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer); and The New Main Street Singers (featuring John Michael Higgins, Jane Lynch and Parker Posey), the most meticulously color-coordinated "neuftet" ever to hit an amusement park near you. Now, for one night only in New York City's Town Hall, these three groups will reunite and gather together to celebrate the music that almost made them famous as they generate A Mighty Wind.

Director:

Christopher Guest

Producer:

Christopher Guest, Karen Murphy

Writer:

Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy

Cast:

Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Christopher Moynihan, Parker Posey, Ed Begley Jr., John Michael Higgins, Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

87%

Critics Consensus: Though not as uproariously funny as Guest's previous movies, A Mighty Wind is also more heartfelt.

Reviews

The Spectator

Mark Steyn

Aside from Miss Lynch, there are two very sweet performances, by Levy and O'Hara as Mitch and Mickey.

The performance that sticks is the one by Eugene Levy, whose work conveys a tenderness that momentarily slices through the satire.

Hilarious folk music mockumentary has some innuendo.

One breathtaking moment of clarity between Eugene Levy's Mitch and Catherine O'Hara's Mickey gives way to an anticipated kiss during which you can practically sense the characters' hearts thumping and their fictional contemporaries rooting for them.

Director Christopher Guest teams up recurring cast members from his past ensemble comedies ("This Is Spinal Tap," "Waiting For Guffman" and "Best In Show") for this immaculately executed comedy of folk music stereotypes.

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