Day Ten/Eleven - For Your Consideration (2007)

Christopher Guest and his “repertorie” actors from A MightyWind and Best in Show take on the movie industry in For Your Consideration.

While making a small Indie film, Home for Purim, the lead actors Catherine O’Hara, Harry Shearer and Parker Posey learn they may be in the running for Oscar nominations. Rumor takes on a life of its own and begins to affect all aspects of the film they are making.  “The Suits,” for example,  decide the script is too ethnic and in order to tone down the film’s obvious  Jewishness  suggest a name-change; so the film becomes Home for Thanksgiving. 

There is a sense of poignancy watching Catherine O'Hara's character being sucked up into her own ego. Her character even tries changing her image in a Barbara Hershey way , a moment as grotesque as seeing Faye Dunniway in Mommy Dearest. 

Besides stellar O'Hara's lead, outstanding performances include Ed Begley, Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, and Fred Willard.

As usual, Guest’s and Levy’s script feels delightfully improvised, and the actors seem to have fun with their quirky characters.

For Your Consideration (2007) DVD ****