Rotten
There is no shortage of performers with comic skills in A Mighty Wind. What's lacking instead is a visible premise for the satire and ridicule.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
A Mighty Wind
Back together for the first time, again.
2003 · 1h 32m · PG-13
Comedy, Music
Directed by
Christopher Guest
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A Mighty Wind
Overview
Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.
Director and cast
- Christopher Guest Director
- Bob Balaban as Jonathan Steinbloom
- Christopher Guest as Alan Barrows
- John Michael Higgins as Terry Bohner
- Eugene Levy as Mitch Cohen
- Jane Lynch as Laurie Bohner
- Michael McKean as Jerry Palter
- Catherine O'Hara as Mickey Crabbe
- Parker Posey as Sissy Knox
- Harry Shearer as Mark Shubb
- Fred Willard as Mike LaFontaine
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
More of a warm breeze than a great gust, but its simple, smart pleasures carry the force of a hurricane.
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Fresh
You don't leave A Mighty Wind laughing so much as humming. Its dialogue may be improvised, but its music is well rehearsed.
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
Fresh
While Guest never forgets to laugh, he never forgets to love either, embracing the very subject he is simultaneously throttling.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
A hoot.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
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