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in Show (2000)
Cast: Christopher Guest, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara Director: Christopher Guest Distributor: Warner Bros. Rating: PG-13 Release Date: September 29, 2000 (Limited) Best in Show director Christopher Guest (Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman) continues his obsession with mockumentaries by offering a send-up of dog shows and their contestants. As is often true in these sorts of films, certain storylines work much better than others. John Michael Higgins (Wag the Dog) and Michael McKean (Spinal Tap) are fantastic as the gay owners of a ribbon-festooned Shih Tzu. Carefully riding the line of flamboyance and caricature, their portrayals are both funny and sharp. Also solid are Eugene Levy (who co-wrote the film) and Catherine O'Hara (both of SCTV fame) as the local yokels who write songs about their Norwich Terrier, Winky. Not so good are Jennifer Coolidge and Jane Lynch as a lesbian pair who have won the big show two years in a row. And Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock are downright irritating as an obsessed pair of yuppie lawyers. But the reason to see Best in Show (though you might want to wait for video) is Fred Willard and Jim Piddock as a pair of dog-show commentators with radically different sensibilities. Their banter, full of hilarious non sequiturs and misunderstandings, had me laughing out loud. J. Robert Parks 10/23/2000
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