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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Rob Reiner |
| Stars: |
Michael McKean |
| Actors: |
Anjelica Huston |
| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Rock Documentaries · Spoof · Satire · Classic · Comedy · Comedy (General) · Theatrical Release |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Special Edition |
| UPC: |
042995208139 |
| Release Date: |
1984 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 33min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD, 1hr 33min
Release Company: Polygram Music Video (June 30, 1998)
UPC: 044008496922 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 33min
Release Company: New Line Home Video (April 29, 1992)
UPC: 042995208139 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Harry Shearer |
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Professional Reviews
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(12/01/2003, p.13, Premiere Staff): "Anytime a movie takes the piss out of a phenomenon, you've got England's loudest band to thank, dead drummers and all." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"There's such a fine line between stupid and..."--David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean)
"...And clever."--Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer)
"The numbers all go to eleven. Look...right across the board."--Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), explaining the volume controls on his amplifiers
"Ahh...oh, I see..."--Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner)
"Eleven...eleven...eleven..."--Nigel
"And most of these amps go up to ten."--Marty
"Exactly."--Nigel
"Does that mean it's...louder? Is it any louder?"--Marty
"Well, it's one louder, isn't it?"--Nigel
"Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?"--Marty
"[Pause]... These go to eleven."--Nigel
"'How much more black could this be?' And the answer is: 'None...none more black.'"--Nigel
"'On what day did God create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day also?'"--Marty, reading a review of Spinal Tap's latest album
"'They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry."'--Marty, reading more from the review
"That's...that's nit-picking, isn't it?"--Nigel
"The official cause of death is he died of choking on vomit. It wasn't his own vomit. He choked on somebody else's vomit."--Nigel
"I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really, it's like a Mach piece, really."--Nigel
"What do you call this?"--Marty
"Well, this piece is called 'Lick My Love Pump.'"--Nigel
"I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf."--David |
| More Information |
| Details: |
A brilliant and hilarious documentary-style satire of a has-been British heavy metal band who never really was on an absurd American comeback tour that never quite gets off the ground, THIS IS SPINAL TAP practically birthed the mockumentary style. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer are David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls, respectively--three clueless, self-absorbed men who form the nucleus of Spinal Tap, aging purveyors of overwrought songs with titles such as "Big Bottom," "Smell the Glove," and "Sex Farm." Shot in faux cinema veriti-style with director Rob Reiner as fictional filmmaker Marty DiBergi, the film lampoons just about every rock & roll clichi (not to mention every rockumentary clichi) in the book as it follows these fallen rock idols from one disastrous gig to the next. Scenes of the tour's descent from desperation into total collapse are interspersed with interviews in which the band members delightfully prattle on inanely about the none-too-illustrious histo... |
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