Best In Show

Director: Christopher Guest

2000 / 90min / 35mm

At the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show, a “documentary film crew” captures the excitement and tension displayed by the eccentric participants in the outrageously hilarious satire Best In Show.This biting send-up exposes the wondrously diverse dog owners who travel from all over America to showcase their four-legged contenders, featuring largely improvised performances from Guest ensemble regulars Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, Michael Hitchcock, Fred Willard, and Guest himself.

“One year after Jennifer Coolidge hit the consciousness of my generation in American Pie, and a year before she would further her place in comedy canon in Legally Blonde, there was Best In Show, where she steals scenes—no easy feat with such a bonkers amazing cast clearly having the time of their lives—as the not-so-closeted lesbian Sherri Ann Cabot. Pure, unbridled perfection with a blue ribbon on top.”—Kaila Hier