Review of For Your Consideration (2006) by Morgan W — 24 Jan 2011

Three actors (Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, and Harry Sherer) learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz. Ensemble cast also includes Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard, Michael McKean, Ed Begley Jr., Paul Dooley, John Krazinski (The Office), Sandra Oh, Richard Kind, Ricky Gervais, Larry Miller, Mary McCormack, Craig Bierko, and writer/director Christopher Guest.

Corey Taft: In every actor there lives a tiger, a pig, an ass, and a nightingale.

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Corey Taft: Question: Do I look like I have Indian blood?

Pam Campanella: Not at a...

Corey Taft: Question: Would it surprise you to learn that I am 1/8th Mighty Choctaw?

Pam Campanella: It woul...

Corey Taft: Question: Would it astound you to learn that here on the set, I am Corey Taft, but when I'm at home, I'm Jo-Jo?

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Corey Taft: Don't make assumptions about the talent. Don't assume the talent can hear well.

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Chuck Porter: Marilyn Hack and trash, what a juxtaposition.

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Lane Iverson: You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater because then all you have is a wet, critically injured baby.

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Chuck Porter: You know what they say about blind prostitutes?

Chuck Porter: You have to hand it to them!

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Martin Gibb: All I'm saying is, have it there, have it there, don't shove it down people's throat. I don't run around going, "I'm a gentile, look at my foreskin!" I don't shove it down your throat, because I don't care.

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Chuck Porter: Now I know what it feels like to stare down into the Grand Canyon.

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Callie Webb: [during her "No Penis Intended" comedy routine after the nominations] Yes, I suppose I'll forgive him... in HELL! HA HA HA HA!

[laughs maniacally].

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Whitney Taylor Brown: [everyone around her is arguing] Well what about me?

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Marilyn Hack: Is that my sweet Rachel's voice I heard? Or am I just goin' meshuga?

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Mary Pat Hooligan: Dying is easy. Playing a lesbian is hard.

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Jay Berman: I love that you did all this work, and it'll serve you well - but not on this movie.

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Whitney Taylor Brown: What if we do a, uh, a different holiday around the table, Easter, and just focus on the rabbit?

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Whitney Taylor Brown: Someone's killed their children and made them into cookies, and I want to go see that.

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Corey Taft: The internet... is that the one with the e-mail?

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Pam Campanella: What does a producer do?

Whitney Taylor Brown: Well, as... as my assistant Lincoln can tell you, there's a lot of telephone calls and... you know, lots of getting out the wallet. And paying for sometimes ridiculous things, like... like snacks.