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Want to spoof Purim and the Oscars? Be our Guest!

In their previous screenplay collaborations, Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy have satirized such offbeat subjects as small-town theatrical productions (\"Waiting for Guffman\"), championship dog shows (\"Best in Show\"), and old folk music groups (\"A Mighty Wind\").But for their latest, \"For Your Consideration,\" they\'ve really gone out on a limb with an obscure target -- Purim movies.\"For Your Consideration\" chronicles the making of a tear-jerking melodrama, \"Home for Purim,\" in which the dying matriarch of a Southern Jewish family, Esther Pischer (Catherine O\'Hara), waits for the holiday-season return of her wayward daughter, Rachel (Parker Posey). Both the Yiddish and the southern accents are thick.
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Steven Rosen

November 16, 2006

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