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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Questionable for Children, Adult Humor Movie Release: 2003 DVD Release: 09/23/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 32 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Total Copies: 76 Genres: Comedy, Musical Comedy, Reunion Films, Mockumentary See Also: A Mighty Wind

The writing and directing team who created Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of folk music in this sly mockumentary. Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s, and helped to nurture the careers of three of the best known acts of the era. The Folksmen -- Mark Shubb (Harry Shearer), Alan Barrows (Christopher Guest), and Jerry Palter (Michael McKean) -- were an earnest folk trio who sang of America's noble past and the challenges of the future; they split up in the early '70s after a failed attempt to go electric. Mitch & Mickey were a duo in both music and life, comprised of Mitch Cohen (Eugene Levy) and Mickey Devlin (Catherine O'Hara). They sang soulful songs of love until the collapse of their relationship sent Mitch into a deep and incapacitating depression. And The Main Street Singers were a nine-piece vocal group -- a "neuftet," as they prefer it -- who offered energetic good-time music, cranking out nearly 30 albums in the course of a decade; their current incarnation, The New Main Street Singers (played by Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, John Michael Higgins, David Alan Blasucci, Steve Pandis, Christopher Moynihan, Paul Dooley and Patrick Sauber) is still on the road. When it is announced that the legendary Irving Steinbloom has died (the character never appears in the film), his son Jonathan (Bob Balaban) decides that the best way to memorialize his father is through music, and with the help of Mike LaFontaine (Fred Willard) of Hi-Class Management, they set out to bring The Folksmen, Mitch & Mickey, and The New Main Street Singers back together for a special concert at New York's Town Hall. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer -- who previously teamed up for This Is Spinal Tap -- not only perform together as The Folksmen in A Mighty Wind, but composed most of the songs performed onscreen. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Bob Balaban - Jonathan Steinbloom
Christopher Guest - Alan Barrows
Catherine O'Hara - Mickey Devlin Crabbe
Eugene Levy - Mitch Cohen
Michael McKean - Jerry Palter
Jane Lynch - Laurie Bohner
John Michael Higgins - Terry Bohner

Christopher Guest's folk music comedy A Mighty Wind comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of the film. English and French soundtracks are available. English, French, and Spanish subtitles are accessible. The excellent supplemental materials are headed by a commentary track recorded by Guest and his co-star and co-scenarist Eugene Levy. They are full of praise for their large and talented cast and they discuss in detail how different people worked hard to learn to play the instruments their characters play in the film. As with the DVDs of Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, a wealth of deleted scenes have been included, all with optional commentary. Many of these are very funny in their own right, but one can still see why they failed to make the final cut. Vintage TV appearances by the bands, and the entire television broadcast of the climactic concert can be viewed, all with optional commentary. This is an outstanding disc from Warner Bros. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide