Smart with heart is a rare combination. Add funny and you're down to about five filmmakers worldwide, and one of them is Christopher Guest. Most will say that Guest, reuniting most of the troupe from his dog-pageant satire BEST IN SHOW (2000) and his community-theater lampoon WAITING FOR GUFFMAN (1996), does for folk music what THIS IS SPINAL TAP did for heavy-metal, but that's a bit too glib: Folk music is as broad, storied and complex as jazz. But this mockumentary (a term Guest says he dislikes, but whatever) does send up the early-'60s "folk revival" and its boomer attendant nostalgia, and like SPINAL TAP (which Guest co-wrote), you don't need to know the music t...
Released:
2003
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
100 mins