2. SYNOPSIS
Debut feature director Jay Berman (Christopher Guest), steers cast and crew through a typically tumultuous independent film Home for Purim, an intimate period drama about a Jewish family’s turbulent reunion on the occasion of the dying matriarch’s favorite holiday.

3. ABOUT THE STORY
While Guest’s previous three films incorporated a documentary crew into the plot, this time the filmmakers eschewed the fictional documentary format for a straightforward narrative about the little indie that could and its fragile and frantic mob of actors, crewmembers, media figures, executives, and various hangers-on.

4. ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
For Your Consideration revolves around the making of an Awards-bait low-budget movie, Home for Purim, which has attracted a group of very committed artists.

5. ABOUT THE CHARACTERS
As with previous Guest excursions, the actors were encouraged to develop the looks and accoutrements of their own characters.

6. ABOUT THE INDUSTRY
For Your Consideration’s story and setting provided the actors with particularly fertile ground in which to grow their comic personalities. After all, they’re ultimately satirizing themselves by mocking their own self-seriousness and odd industry rituals.

‘For Your Consideration’ has her kind of character
Kansas City Star, MO - Nov 28, 2006
Toward the end of “For Your Consideration,” Catherine O’Hara’s face so realistically looks like the results of bad plastic surgery that it makes you wonder: ...

Sharp satire 'For Your Consideration'
Regina Leader-Post, Canada - Nov 25, 2006
Hey, I heard that Catherine O'Hara is so splendid in Christopher Guest's latest ensemble comedy, For Your Consideration, that she's a shoo-in for an Oscar ...

Feeling the buzz: For Your Consideration and Tenacious D in the ...
The Independent Weekly, NC - Nov 22, 2006
The new comedies For Your Consideration and Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny both revolve around this kind of self-referential humor, but the former works ...

Eugene Levy Talks For Your Consideration
CanMag, CA - Nov 20, 2006
For Your Consideration is a Hollywood comedy from the Best in Show and Mighty Wind team. On the set of the indie drama Home for Purim, the cast gets wind of ...

Guest's 'film within a film' perks up 'For Your Consideration'
Inside Bay Area, CA - Nov 17, 2006
FOR YOUR PLEASURE: Jane Lynch and Fred Willard are among Christopher Guest's returning stable of players in the ensemble comedy "For Your Consideration." ...

"For Your Consideration" duo tackles the highs and lows of award ...
Los Angeles Times, CA - Nov 17, 2006
In his latest comedy, "For Your Consideration," which opens Friday, he takes on awards' season hype. Unlike his other films, "Consideration," which he ...

Art imitates Hollywood
Waterloo Record, Canada - Nov 23, 2006
It seems almost surly and ungrateful to say For Your Consideration, the newest bit of cinematic silliness from Christopher Guest and the gang, ...

Guest lampoons TV infotainment At the movies
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - Nov 24, 2006
In “For Your Consideration,” Lynch meshes O’Dell’s severe poses and Hart’s winky-wink delivery; Willard wears a sunburned, stony-wrinkled face underneath an ...

Guest and friends set sights on Oscar
Flint Journal, MI - Nov 24, 2006
Still, if you're a Hollywood maven, "For Your Consideration" is worth your time, with its egotistical actors, interfering producers, misleading marketers, ...

Interview: How to Write Your Own Script
The MIT Tech, MA - Nov 16, 2006
Prior to the release of “For Your Consideration,” writers, actors, directors, and producers Eugene Levy and Christopher Guest sat down with a few reporters ...

Lights! Camera! Absurdity!
Examiner.com - Nov 16, 2006
Christopher Guest and his returning comedy troupe have, “For Your Consideration,” another semi-improvised spoof of over-earnest second-raters and their ...