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Best in Show
- Director: Christopher Guest
- Writer: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy
- Producer: Gordon Mark; Karen Murphy
CGiii Comment
The usual from Guest and his usual seldom-hit and often-miss humour...about a dog show.
It's just not intelligent enough to shame the American society at which it pokes fun at...
The appeal is for the brain-dead, the fart out loud brigade who will think that they are laughing at the upper classes - let them - for they know not what they do.
A miss.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The owners (and handlers) of five show dogs head for the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. A film crew interviews them as they prepare for the trip, arrive at Philly's Taft Hotel, and compete. From Florida come the Flecks: she keeps running into old lovers. A wordless ancient in a wheelchair and his buxom trophy wife who may have a thing for the dog's handler own the two-time defending best in show, a poodle. From the piney woods of N.C. comes a fella who wants to be a ventriloquist. High-strung DINKs feud loudly in front of their Weimaraner. Two outré gay men from Tribeca round out the profiled owners. The dog show brings out the essence of the humans. Who will be best in show?
Cast & Characters
Jay Brazeau as Dr. Chuck Nelken;
Parker Posey as Meg Swan;
Michael Hitchcock as Hamilton Swan;
Catherine O'Hara as Cookie Fleck;
Eugene Levy as Gerry Fleck;
Carrie Aizley as Fern City Show Spectator;
Lewis Arquette as Fern City Show Spectator;
Dany Canino as Fern City Show Judge;
Bob Balaban as Dr. Theodore W. Millbank, III;
Will Sasso as Fishin' Hole Guy;
Stephen E. Miller as Fishin' Hole Guy;
Christopher Guest as Harlan Pepper;
Michael McKean as Stefan Vanderhoof;
John Michael Higgins as Scott Donlan;
Colin Cunningham as New York Butcher