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Waiting for Guffman
1996
· Movie
· 84 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #991
- IMDb #1348
- Rotten Tomatoes #450
- Metacritic #1312
- Letterboxd #1024
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #910
+3 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #447
- Metacritic Critics #1320
- Metacritic Audience #1480
Every rating
65–91
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 65, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 91.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.
Details
- Director
- Christopher Guest
- Writers
- Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy
- Studio
- Pale Morning Dun
- Released
- 31 January 1997
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $2.9M
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