History Film / AMightyWind

** Ramblin' Jack Elliott is briefly represented with a character called Ramblin' Sandy Pitnik (mocking the fact that despite his cowboy person, Elliott was a middle class Jew).

** Mitch and Mickey - Ian and Sylvia, and to a lesser extent Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.
** The Folksmen - The Kingston Trio and Chad Mitchell Trio. (And possibly Peter Paul and Mary, per the closing gag!)
** The New Main Street Singers - The New Christy Minstrels, Serendipity Singers and Rooftop Singers, possibly along with the New Seekers, who were also formed from the ashes of a similarly named group by one of that group's former members.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Back together for the first time, again.]]

''A Mighty Wind'' is a 2003 {{mockumentary}} film about a reunion of FolkMusic singers, directed by Creator/ChristopherGuest. The movie's comedy is comparable to that of Guest's other films, ''[[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap This is Spın̈al Tap]]'', ''Film/BestInShow'', and ''Film/WaitingForGuffman'', as well as [[ProductionPosse having mostly the same cast as those films]], including Guest, Creator/EugeneLevy, Creator/CatherineOHara, Creator/MichaelMcKean, Creator/HarryShearer, Creator/JohnMichaelHiggins, Creator/JaneLynch, Creator/ParkerPosey, and Creator/FredWillard.

Presented as an AffectionateParody of TheSixties folk revival, the movie received largely positive reviews, with particular praise going towards the performances and the music within.

"A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" earned itself an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination, making it somewhat of a {{Defictionalization}}.

* RunawayTrain: "Blood on the Coal" by The Folksmen is a song about a runaway train ''in'' a coal mine. (The song actually predates the movie, and the joke is that all folk bands had a song about either a mine disaster or a train wreck, so The Folksmen had decided to combine the two by having a song about a train wreck ''inside'' a coal mine.)

The plot is started by the death of Irving Steinbloom, a folk music producer, whose children plan a reunion concert with several of the bands he worked with to honor his memory. However, there are several things that make this difficult, such as the fact that once-married duo Mitch & Mickey (Levy, O'Hara) haven't spoken for decades since their messy breakup, and Mitch's resulting CreatorBreakdown. Not to mention emerging tensions between the members of The Folksmen trio (Guest, [=McKean=], Shearer), and the fact that the New Main Street Singers are an ersatz revival of the original group managed by former sitcom star Mike [=LaFontaine=] (Willard).

--> ''There's pie in the pantry and the coffee's always hot''

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Mike [=LaFontaine=] apparently thinks that ''Literature/MobyDick'' is a book about a pirate captain named Ahab whose CharacterCatchphrase was "There she blows!" and tries to get the New Main Street Singers to incorporate something like that into their performance of "Fair Away".

* BigFinaleCrowdSong: The final performance of the Irving Steinbloom memorial concert has all three bands join together for a rendition of the title song, "A Mighty Wind". After that, the film is basically over,

--> Well, there's a puppy in the parlor and a skillet on the stove
--> And a smelly old blanket that a Navajo wove
--> There's popcorn in the popper and a porker in the pot
--> There's pie in the pantry and the coffee's always hot
--> There's sausage in the mornin' and a party every night
--> There's a nurse on duty if you don't feel right
--> There's chicken on the the table but you gotta say grace ([[CatharticExhalation Whew]]!)
--> There's always something cookin' at Old Joe's Place

* InUniverseFactoidFailure: Mike [=LaFontaine=] apparently thinks that ''Literature/MobyDick'' is a book about a pirate captain named Ahab whose CharacterCatchphrase was "There she blows!" and tries to get the New Main Street Singers to incorporate something like that into their performance of "Fair Away".

* {{Mockumentary}}: In typical Creeator/ChristopherGuest fashion, the film follows several folk groups as they prepare for and eventually perform at a memorial concert in honor of the man who gave them their big break.

** A cut scene would have revealed Menschell actually cannot play guitar, and holds one simply because he once hid a shirt stain behind a guitar during a performance of the Main Street Singers.

* GeniusDitz: Mitch may be a bit empty-headed, but ''damn'', [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic the man can play]].

* {{Mockumentary}}

''A Mighty Wind'' is a 2003 {{mockumentary}} film about a reunion of FolkMusic singers, directed by Creator/ChristopherGuest. The movie's comedy is comparable to that of Guest's other films, ''[[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap This is Spın̈al Tap]]'', ''Film/BestInShow'', and ''Film/WaitingForGuffman'', as well as having mostly the same cast as those films, including Guest, Creator/EugeneLevy, Creator/CatherineOHara, Creator/MichaelMcKean, Creator/HarryShearer, Creator/JohnMichaelHiggins, Creator/JaneLynch, Creator/ParkerPosey, and Creator/FredWillard.

** A cut scene would have revealed Menschell actually cannot play guitar, and holds one simply because he once hid a shirt stain behind a guitar during a photo shoot for the Main Street Singers.

* TheBenchwarmer: Exactly what does George Menschell do in the New Main Street Singers? On stage he never plays his guitar, never sings lead, and often doesn't sing at all, leading one to wonder if his microphone is even turned on. Off stage he does nothing to promote the band, not even when prompted by band manager Mike [=LaFontaine=]. It seems his only reason for hanging around is a mutually beneficial connection to the original Main Street Singers.

** The New Main Street Singers - The New Christy Minstrels, Serendipity Singers, and Rooftop Singers.

* TheBenchwarmer: Exactly what does George Menschell do in the New Main Street Singers? On stage he never plays his guitar, never sings lead, and often doesn't sing at all, leading one to wonder if his microphone is even turned on. Off stage he does nothing to promote the band, not even when prompted by band manager Mike LaFontaine. It seems his only reason for hanging around is a mutually beneficial connection to the original Main Street Singers.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Mitch is an odd fellow. Whether he's a little ditzy, just quirky, suffering the aftereffects of the trauma of his and Mickey's breakup (see also CreatorBreakdown), or somehow disordered is left pretty ambiguous, though his social difficulties, general incomprehension of the world around him, awkward speech patterns, tendency to wander away from people, and hyper-fixation on people and things point to some kind of disorder. This is lampshaded when the head of the institution he was checked into regrets that he left before they could really figure out what was wrong with him.

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The plot is started by the death of Irving Steinbloom, a folk music producer, whose children plan a reunion concert with several of the bands he worked with to honor his memory. However, there are several things that make this difficult, such as the fact that once-married duo Mitch & Mickey (Levy, O'Hara) haven't spoken for decades since their messy breakup, and Mitch's resulting CreatorBreakdown. Not to mention emerging tensions between the members of The Folksmen trio (Guest, [=McKean=], Shearer), and the fact that the New Main Street Singers are an ersatz revival of the [[{{}} original]] group managed by former sitcom star Mike [=LaFontaine=] (Willard).

The plot is started by the death of Irving Steinbloom, a folk music producer, whose children plan a reunion concert with several of the bands he worked with to honor his memory. However, there are several things that make this difficult, such as the fact that once-married duo Mitch & Mickey (Levy, O'Hara) haven't spoken for decades since their messy breakup, and Mitch's resulting CreatorBreakdown. Not to mention emerging tensions between the members of The Folksmen trio (Guest, [=McKean=], Shearer), and the fact that the New Main Street Singers are an ersatz revival of the original group managed by former sitcom star Mike [=LaFontaine=] (Willard).

* {{Cult}}: The WINC (Witches in Nature's Colors) a coven that worships the power of color founded by Terry and Laurie.

* MusicalisInterruptus: 'The Skeletons of Quinto'. After a 20 minute (off-screen) introduction explaining the song, the Folksman are rushed off-stage before they can sing it by the arrival of Mitch and Mickey.

* GenderBender: [[spoiler:The epilogue reveals that Mark Shubb is now living and performing as a woman, though still singing with her deep bass voice.]]

* VocalDissonance: Mark at the end of the film has gone through gender reassignment surgery - but her voice is still as baritone bass as it was when she was still Harry.

* FreezeFrameBonus: When the Variety issue featuring review of ''Wha' Happened'' is on screen, the article states the show was on air for a whopping ''four'' episodes before being cancelled "due to total lack of interest"

* FreezeFrameBonus: When the Variety issue featuring a review of ''Wha' Happened'' is on screen, the article states the show was on air for a whopping ''four'' episodes before being cancelled [[EpicFail "due to total lack of interest"]]