A Mighty Wind (2003)

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7.2	IMDB rating

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Christopher Guest

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Mary Gross
Ma Klapper

Marty Belafsky
Ramblin' Sandy Pitnik

Ryan Raddatz
Bill Weyburn

Laura Harris
Girl Klapper

Harry Shearer
Mark Shubb

Michael McKean
Jerry Palter

Christopher Guest
Alan Barrows

Eugene Levy
Mitch Cohen

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A Mighty Comedy

17 years, 6 months ago at Nov 11 9:19

jasoncarulli

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Christopher Guest nails it again with his musical mockumentary, A Mighty Wind. The subtleness of humor makes each character truly believable in their roles. I definately recommend it.

An average movie

12 years, 11 months ago at May 31 10:45

johanlefourbe

2 votes

Honestly, I keep watching those mockumentaries by Christopher Guest and each time, I really want to love them but, each time, they actually fail to really impress me. Eventually, this flick was not exception. I’m afraid. I mean, it has a very solid reputation so I had some rather high expectations and, indeed, all the actors involved were pretty good and the directing was decent but never during... read more

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A mockumentary about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands must reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades.

Release date: 9 May 2003
UPC: 085392771820

Tags: Comedy (12), Mockumentary (9), Music (7), Folk (4), Humor (3), Folk Music (3), Gypsy (3), 2000s (3), Spoof (3), 2003 (3), Spiritual Cinema (2), SnP (2), Sort (2), Love It (2), Christopher Guest (2), Muckumentary (2), Funny (2), Genius (2), Hilarious (2), Folk Music (2) (1)

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