For Your Consideration

With films like This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, writer/ director/ actor Christopher Guest has created a niche for himself making “mockumentaries” - improvised comedies that have the look and feel of genuine documentaries but are funnier. For Your Consideration mercilessly lampoons the madness of Hollywood by following a a group of actors making a low-budget film. When an internet posts suggests that the film will do well at the Oscars, this little movies becomes the centre of everyone’s attention. As each wave of publicity generates even more attention, the studio start throwing money at the movie and demand a blockbuster-style rewrite while the actors themselves become stars overnight, even though the film’s not even been finished yet!