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This Is Spinal Tap

1984, Movie, R, 82 mins

This Is Spinal Tap: Review

This classic pseudo-documentary of a British rock group was so on target in its satire, many viewers initially took it for the real thing. It's since become a cult classic and its title a cultural catch phrase. Spinal Tap (Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean) are an aging British heavy metal band limping their way across the U.S. while Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) makes a "rockumentary" film about their long, strange history. Read the complete review for This Is Spinal Tap

This Is Spinal Tap: Cast & Details

Year: 1984
Rated R

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Cast
Rob Reiner: Marty DiBergi
Michael McKean: David St. Hubbins
Christopher Guest: Nigel Tufnel
Harry Shearer: Derek Smalls
R.J. Parnell: Mick Shrimpton
David Kaff: Viv Savage

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Our favorite star-crossed Loch... | Today's News: Our Take | 10/18/2005
Our favorite star-crossed Loch Ness Monster hunters are back together this week, hot on the trail of the Big Bad Specimen A that Laura managed to tag last time. Seriously, if these two aren't MFEO (that's Made For Each Other) in their obsessive-compulsive Captain Ahab routine, I don't know who is. When Rich gets a load of Laura's shrine-o'-newspaper-clippings, he tells her, "I thought I'd gone overboard." Guess what, Surface cast? I'm instituting a dollar-a-pun rule — it's a crisp greenback in the jar every time you spout a bit of cutesy, water-related dialogue. (Uh-oh. I don't owe a buck for "spout," do I?) After some death-defying highway hot-doggery, the pair manage to score their first above-water sighting — alongside an entire marina full of tourists. We've got monster on tape! Oh wait, no we don't. Thanks a lot, electromagnetic superpowers. Whose side are you on, anyway? Hip! Hip! Hooray for the B-story: Nim's loose in the Piggly Wiggly! Now this is the sort of read more

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