Review of For Your Consideration (2006) by Joel J — 11 Sep 2008

The cast of "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind" return for a stab at hollywood and Oscar obsession. O'Hara plays an older actress, a simple and unadorned journey-woman who has for years been a steady worker in Hollywood.

She's cast as the mother in a drama called "Home for Purim", a movie about a jewish family set in the 1940s south. That these clearly gentile actors are speaking in southern accents and throwing out the odd yiddish word at random doesn't seem to diminish the dramatic effect that the director (chris guest) is going for.

In fact, it seems to encourage him to push the drama even harder. Harry Shearer plays an actor playing the dad of the family, but he's best known as the dancing hot dog for a weiner company. Fred Willard and Jane Lynch are the hosts of an "entertainment tonight"- type show and Willard is sporting a Faux hawk.

Apparently, some person who wandered onto the set of this movie one day went home and wrote on the "internet" that there should be Oscar buzz around the mother's performance. This sets off an oscar frenzy among the cast, as one after another, they are all mentioned in the same breath as Oscar.

But as Fred Willard's character says, "It's important that you THINK you're going to be nominated". A little slow at first, it picks up in the last half hour, but still, not alot of laughs.