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This is a fanlisting dedicated to the movie A Mighty Wind.

A Mighty Wind is a Christopher Guest mockumentary about the folk music industry. Three folk groups-the Folksmen, The New Mainstreet Singers, and Mitch & Mickey-come together for a reunion show in New York City.


QUOTES:

Mike LaFontaine: [about the folk singers with the deputy mayor] Hey, where's the real mayor, wha' happened? Somebody shot the mayor, but they did not shoot the deputy.

Amber Cole: Thank God for the model trains, you know? If they didn't have the model trains they wouldn't have gotten the idea for the big trains.

Mitch Cohen: Seeing these long lines of fans who want nothing more than to have you sign an autograph, it's like it's 1968... Or '67... Or '66.

Mickey Crabbe: Then there's the kids - we're hearing: "You rock... you rock me... you rock my world!" What?

Jonathan Steinbloom: [referring to his mother] You could say she was overly protective - I just like to think she cared about me, which she did, a lot. And I was a member of the chess team and whenever we would have chess tournaments I had to wear a protective helmet, I had to wear a football helmet. Now who knows what she was thinking? Maybe she thought that we might have fallen maybe and impaled our heads on a pointy bishop or something, I don't know.

Laurie Bohner: Terry and I worship an unconventional deity. The power of another dimension. Now you are not going to read about this dimension in a book or a magazine because it exists nowhere... but in my own mind. Through our ceremonies and rituals we have witnessed the awesome and vibratory power... of color. We are Winc. W-I-N-C. Witches In Nature's Colors.

Jerry Palter: We go out there, we do the song we're known for, we get it out of the way and then, 'hey, here's the icing on the cake.'
Alan Barrows: What's the icing?
Jerry Palter: Well the icing is the rest of the act.
Mark Shubb: That's the cake.
Jerry Palter: No, that's the dressing.

Mitch Cohen: I feel ready for whatever the experience is that we will... take with us after the show. I'm sure it will be... an adventure... a voyage on this... magnificent vessel... into unchartered waters! What if we see sailfish... jumping... and flying across the magnificent orb of a setting sun?

Mike LaFontaine: To paraphrase an old joke... Knock, knock. Who's there? It's the New Main Street Singers!

Amber Cole: One time I had a friend who asked me if I'd like to play the piccolo but I said no.

Alan Barrows: I always thought it was "hey nonny no, nanny ninny no" and I'm getting kind of confused with all the nannies and the ninnies.
Jerry Palter: There's no nanny, just take that out of the equation. It's "hey nonny no, nonny ninny o".
Mark Shubb: Iron clad rule, Alan. Nonny before ninny.
Alan Barrows: Well, I don't sing this one anyway.
Jerry Palter: No, so it's kind of academic.

Alan Barrows: And they had no hole in the center of the record.
Mark Shubb: It would teeter crazily on the little spindle.
Jerry Palter: No, you had to provide it yourself. They were still good records. Good product.
Mark Shubb: If you punched a hole in them, you'd have a good time.

Lawrence E. Turpin: Alright, here's your giant banjo...
Jonathan Steinbloom: Um-hmm. It's very flat.
Lawrence E. Turpin: Well, it doesn't look flat from in the audience.
Jonathan Steinbloom: It has basically, no dimension to it.
Lawrence E. Turpin: Well, it's painted to look three dimensional. If you go back there, trust me...
Jonathan Steinbloom: But it's not painted on the back. I'm looking ot the back right now. Will you look with me for a minute?
Lawrence E. Turpin: Why would it be... From the audience it's gonna look perfectly fine. And it looks three dimensional. Just go out there and take a peek.
Jonathan Steinbloom: Well, is this the real furniture or is this the rehearsal furniture?
Lawrence E. Turpin: Well, A) it's not called furniture. It's a set.
Jonathan Steinbloom: Uh-huh...
Lawrence E. Turpin: And it's painted this way. It looks completely three dimensional from the audience, if you just go out that way, Mr. Steinbloom.
Jonathan Steinbloom: So this is the real furniture, and this is... Is this an actual street lamp?
Lawrence E. Turpin: I'm sure it was at one time.
Jonathan Steinbloom: Can you have an actual three dimensional object that's represents the thing that it actually is, can that be next to something that it's pretending to be? Would that be okay?
Lawrence E. Turpin: Yes, it's perfectly fine. You know, I really don't have time to explain Stagecraft 101. This show starts in an hour. Now, every... everything is exactly the way you...
Jonathan Steinbloom: And what are tho... what's tha... that... Those are lights hanging up there?
Lawrence E. Turpin: Yes, those are lights...
Jonathan Steinbloom: Could they fall?
Lawrence E. Turpin: ...and that's a ceiling above us!
Jonathan Steinbloom: But they look shaky.
Lawrence E. Turpin: No, they're not shaky, they're perfectly...
Jonathan Steinbloom: Is that wire? I see a wire. I see a...
[Lawrence smacks him on the head]
Jonathan Steinbloom: Oww!

Jerry Palter: Things have been going really well. We got some gigs here, working at the casinos. It has been a time of changes, but change is good. Change is life.
[camera pulls out to reveal Mark Shubb dressed as a woman]
Mark Shubb: It was like a great big door opening for me... Town Hall... after that concert, I realized I wanted to spend as much of the rest of my life as possible playing folk music with these gentlemen...
Jerry Palter: Right back atcha.
Mark Shubb: ...and I wanted to spend all of it as a woman. I came to a realization that I was - and am - a blonde, female folk singer trapped in the body of a bald, male folk singer and I had to LET ME OUT or I WOULD DIE.
Jerry Palter: When you put it that way, it's almost poetry.
Alan Barrows: Almost.




Cast and Characters:

The Folksmen

• Alan Barrows (played by Christopher Guest)
• Mark Shubb (played by Harry Shearer)
• Jerry Palter (played by Michael McKean)

• Old Joe's Place
• Never Did No Wanderin'
• Loco Man
• Blood on the Coal
• Skeletons of Quinto
• Start Me Up
• Barnyard Symphony
• Children Of The Sun

• Mitch Cohen (played by Eugene Levy)
• Mickey Crabbe née Devlin (played by Catherine O'Hara)

• A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow
• One More Time
• The Ballad of Bobby and June
• When You're Next to Me

• Laurie Bohner (played by Jane Lynch)
• Terry Bohner (played by John Michael Higgins)
• Sissy Knox (played by Parker Posey)
• George Menschell (played by Paul Dooley)
• Mike LaFontaine: Manager (played by Fred Willard)

• Potato's in the Paddy Wagon
• Fare Away
• Just That Kinda Day
• The Good Book Song
• Never Did No Wanderin' (Folksmen cover)
• Main Street Rag