For Your Consideration

Snubbed Forever: Catherine O’Hara 

Dir. Christopher Guest. 2006, 86 mins. U.S. 35mm. With Catherine O’Hara, Harry Shearer, Parker Posey, Michael McKean, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Eugene Levy, Larry Miller. The funniest movie ever made about the experience of being snubbed for an Oscar nomination, For Your Consideration found Christopher Guest and company moving away from their patented mockumentary format for this hilarious and merciless satire. Focusing equally on the hellish Oscar-prognostication media landscape as much as on the Tinseltown fools who buy into it with self-destructive relish, Guest’s film gives O’Hara one of her greatest screen roles as Marilyn Hack, who discovers, much to her detriment, that she has been tapped for a possible Oscar nomination for the ridiculous ethnic melodrama (“Home for Purim,” in a bit of classic Borscht Belt humor) she’s currently shooting. Everyone is skewered, from journalists and critics to agents and producers to, of course, vain movie stars, in this delightful, ultimately poignant parody. 

Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. 

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