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ABOUT THE MOVIE:
Director: Christopher Guest
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Writers: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy

PLOT:
The owners (and handlers) of five show dogs head for the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. A film crew interviews them as they prepare for the trip, arrive at Philly's Taft Hotel, and compete. From Florida come the Flecks: she keeps running into old lovers. A wordless ancient in a wheelchair and his buxom trophy wife who may have a thing for the dog's handler own the two-time defending best in show, a poodle. From the piney woods of N.C. comes a fella who wants to be a ventriloquist. High-strung DINKs feud loudly in front of their Weimaraner. Two outré gay men from Tribeca round out the profiled owners. The dog show brings out the essence of the humans. Who will be best in show?
- From IMDB

CAST:

Christopher Guest	.....	Harlan Pepper
Parker Posey	.....	Meg Swan
Michael Hitchcock	.....	Hamilton Swan
Catherine O'Hara	.....	Cookie Guggelman Fleck
Eugene Levy	.....	Gerald 'Gerry' Fleck
Michael McKean	.....	Stefan Vanderhoof
John Michael Higgins	.....	Scott Donlan
Jennifer Coolidge	.....	Sherri Ann Ward Cabot
Jane Lynch	.....	Christy Cummings
Fred Willard	.....	Buck Laughlin
Bob Balaban	.....	Dr. Theodore W. Millbank III
Jim Piddock	.....	Trevor Beckwith, the Commentator

QUOTES:

Meg Swan: No, that's a bear in a, in a bee costume.

Meg Swan: This? This is a fish. This is a fish! You know what? Just shut up.

Gerry Fleck: I can't dance, I can't dance, I've got two left feet!
Cookie Fleck: I thought he was kidding.
Gerry Fleck: But I wasn't. I was born with two left feet.

Buck Laughlin: And to think that in some countries these dogs are eaten.

Sherri Ann Cabot: Leslie and I have an amazing relationship and it's very physical, he still pushes all my buttons. People say 'oh but he's so much older than you' and you know what, I'm the one having to push him away. We have so much in common, we both love soup and snow peas, we love the outdoors, and talking and not talking. We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about.

Buck Laughlin: Doctor, question that's always bothered me and a lot of people: Mayflower, combined with Philadelphia - a no-brainer, right? Cause this is where the Mayflower landed. Not so. It turns out Columbus actually set foot somewhere down in the West Indies. Little known fact.

Hamilton Swan: Don't look at the fat ass losers or freaks, look at me!

Buck Laughlin: I don't think I could ever get used to being poked and prodded. I told my proctologist one time, 'Why don't you take me out to dinner and a movie sometime?'

Stefan Vanderhoof: [talking about the first time he saw Scott showing a dog] They had the same prance, the same rhythm, it was like they were two members of the same body.
Scott Donlan: I knew a guy who had two members on the same body, dated him for about a half hour, got *so* exhausted. I'm sorry, go on, you were telling a story?

Harlan Pepper: I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, 'Harlan Pepper, if you don't stop naming nuts,' and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that's what put it in my mind at that point. So she would hear me in the other room, and she'd just start yelling. I'd say, 'Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.' That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She'd say, 'Would you stop naming nuts!' And Hubert used to be able to make the sound, he couldn't talk, but he'd go 'rrrawr rrawr' and that sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it's also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut.

Hotel Manager: We have you down for a queen.
Scott Donlan: What are you suggesting... my dear man?