| For Your Consideration | |
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| Directed by | Christopher Guest |
| Written by | Christopher Guest Eugene Levy |
| Produced by | Karen Murphy |
| Starring | Bob Balaban Jennifer Coolidge Christopher Guest John Michael Higgins Eugene Levy Jane Lynch Michael McKean Catherine O'Hara Parker Posey Harry Shearer Fred Willard |
| Cinematography | Roberto Schaefer |
| Edited by | Robert Leighton |
| Music by | C. J. Vanston |
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| Distributed by | Warner Independent Pictures |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12 million[1] |
| Box office | $5.9 million[1] |
For Your Consideration is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Christopher Guest. It was co-written by Guest and Eugene Levy, and both also star in the film. The film's title is a phrase used in trade advertisements to promote films for honors such as the Academy Awards. The plot revolves around a group of three actors who learn that their performances in the fictional film they have not even completed yet, Home for Purim, a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are supposedly generating a great deal of award-season buzz.
Many of the cast who have appeared in Guest's previous films Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind including Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Fred Willard, Larry Miller, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Jane Lynch, Ed Begley Jr., Michael Hitchcock, John Michael Higgins, and Jim Piddock. Ricky Gervais, the co-creator of the original British television series The Office, also appears, while Paul Dooley, John Krasinski, Richard Kind, Scott Adsit, and Sandra Oh make brief cameos. Though the dialogue is largely improvised by the actors as in Guest's earlier films, the format is a departure from the mockumentary style.
The film received its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2006.[2] It was produced by Warner Independent Pictures in association with Castle Rock Entertainment and Shangri-La Entertainment.
- ^ a b "IMDb, For Your Consideration". Amazon.com. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
- ^ Evans, Ian (2006), For Your Consideration premiere at TIFF, retrieved 2009-12-02