History Film / ForYourConsideration

The plot follows Marilyn Hack (Creator/CatherineOHara), a 30-year-veteran of Hollywood who has yet to catch a break. She is able to land the lead role in ''Home for Purim'', starring as the dying matriarch of a Southern Jewish family in the 1940s. Also joining her are Victor Allen Miller (Creator/HarryShearer), a former stage actor who has been reduced to doing commercial voice-overs, playing her husband; Callie Webb (Creator/ParkerPosey) an off-Broadway comedienne, playing her recently [[ComingOutStory out]] daughter; and newcomer Brian Chubb (Creator/ChristopherMoynihan) as her son, home from the Navy.

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''For Your Consideration'' is a 2006 comedy film directed by Creator/ChristopherGuest. It was co-written by Guest and Creator/EugeneLevy, both also starring in the film.

The plot follows Marilyn Hack (Creator/CatherineOHara), a 30-year-veteran of Hollywood who has yet to catch a break. She is able to land the lead role in ''Home For Purim'', playing the dying matriarch of a Southern Jewish family in the 1940s. Also joining her are Victor Allen Miller (Creator/HarryShearer), a former stage actor who has been reduced to doing commercial voice-overs, playing her husband; Callie Webb (Creator/ParkerPosey) an off-Broadway comedienne, playing her recently [[ComingOutStory out]] daughter; and newcomer Brian Chubb (Creator/ChristopherMoynihan) as her son, home from the Navy.

Despite a highly eccentric and demanding director (Guest) and a producer (Creator/JenniferCoolidge) whose only contribution is that [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense she can write checks]], awards buzz begins to surround the movie, with Marilyn and Callie's names being considered for Best Actress, while Victor is supposedly being considered for Best Actor. All three soon begin to develop egos, and take great pride in [[TemptingFate knowing that they will soon be Academy Award nominees]]. When the nominations are formally announced, however, only Brian, who has received next to no attention, has been nominated for an award, for Best Supporting Actor. The other three quietly return to their mundane careers.

* FrozenFace: Marilyn decides to get a makeover including overdone facial plastic surgery in anticipation of her Oscar win, and can barely move her facial muscles outside of a gr8macing smile as a result.
* {{Irony}}: The resolution of the plot. [[spoiler:The one actor on the hyped film who wasn't rumored for an Oscar was the only one to receive a nomination from the Academy, and, not expecting anything, didn't even hear the news on awards night.]]

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Parodied. Even though he looks completely white, Corey Taft (Creator/JohnMichaelHiggins) insists that he is in-fact 1/8th Native American ("mighty Choctaw!")

* FrozenFace: Marilyn decides to get a makeover including overdone plastic surgery in anticipation of her Oscar win, and can barely move her facial muscles as a result.
* {{Irony}}: The resolution of the plot. [[spoiler:The one actor on the hyped film who wasn't rumored for an Oscar was the only one to receive recognition from the Academy, and, not expecting anything, didn't even hear the news on awards night.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: After Marilyn, Victor, and Callie learn that they weren't nominated after all the hype, Fred Willard's character interviews them live the next morning to get their reactions while they're upset and/or hungover]].
* MeaningfulName: Marilyn by the end of the film. [[spoiler: She goes from a modest actor unconcerned with big fame to someone devastated by the loss of a dream she didn't always have, ending up as an over-inflated acting coach without the talent (or facial expression, due to her dodgy plastic surgery) to really produce talented actors under her. She loses the beauty and talent she had in the wanting for more, and Marilyn Hack is a hack actor and a hack Marilyn (Monroe) at the end of the story.]]
* MisaimedMarketing: In-universe (parodied). Not wanting to deter Gentile audiences from seeing a "Jewish" movie, halfway through production, the film is retitled ''Home for Thanksgiving'', despite the plot remaining the same. We also see concerns about this in a design meeting for the poster. In one with the characters' faces over treats held on a tray by Esther, Whitney thinks the plot is about the mother killing her children and baking them into cookies--which she'd happily watch, but which obviously communicates the wrong idea.

* TechnologicallyBlindElders: The middle-aged Marilyn and her agent don't really get the Internet and how it works, and this leads to them misunderstanding a fan's blog post that says their unreleased film might be an Oscar contender as a rumor worth taking seriously. This spirals and overtakes the crew and even the film industry as a result, [[spoiler: utterly crushing everyone who got swept up in the baseless hype.]]
* UnfortunateNames: Whitney Taylor Brown's family got rich off a diaper company named after them- the Brown Diaper Company.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: In-universe. In her entire career, Marilyn's most memorable was playing a blind prostitute decades ago.
* FrozenFace: Marilyn decides to get overdone plastic surgery in anticipation of her Oscar win, and can barely move her facial muscles as a result.

* MisaimedMarketing: In-universe (parodied). Not wanting to deter Gentile audiences from seeing a "Jewish" movie, halfway through production, the film is retitled ''Home for Thanksgiving'', despite the plot remaining the same. We also see concerns about this in a design meeting for the poster. In one with the characters' faces over treats, Whitney thinks the plot is about the mother killing her children and baking them into cookies--which she'd happily watch, but which obviously communicates the wrong idea.

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: After Marilyn, Victor, and Callie learn that they weren't nominated after all the hype, Fred Willard's character interviews them live to get their reactions]].
* MisaimedMarketing: In-universe (parodied). Not wanting to deter Gentile audiences from seeing a "Jewish" movie, halfway through production, the film is retitled ''Home for Thanksgiving'', despite the plot remaining the same.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/WaitingForGuffman'', ''Film/BestInShow'', and ''Film/AMightyWind''.
** Although it's the first one to lose the Mockumentary format.

The plot follows Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara), a 30-year-veteran of Hollywood who has yet to catch a break. She is able to land the lead role in ''Home For Purim'', playing the dying matriarch of a Southern Jewish family in the 1940s. Also joining her are Victor Allen Miller (Creator/HarryShearer), a former stage actor who has been reduced to doing commercial voice-overs, playing her husband; Callie Webb (Creator/ParkerPosey) an off-Broadway comedienne, playing her recently [[ComingOutStory out]] daughter; and newcomer Brian Chubb (Christopher Moynihan) as her son, home from the Navy.

Despite a highly eccentric and demanding director (Guest) and a producer (Jennifer Coolidge) whose only contribution is that [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense she can write checks]], awards buzz begins to surround the movie, with Marilyn and Callie's names being considered for Best Actress, while Victor is supposedly being considered for Best Actor. All three soon begin to develop egos, and take great pride in [[TemptingFate knowing that they will soon be Academy Award nominees]]. When the nominations are formally announced, however, only Brian, who has received next to no attention, has been nominated for an award, for Best Supporting Actor. The other three quietly return to their mundane careers.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Parodied. Even though he looks completely white, Corey Taft (John Michael Higgins) insists that he is in-fact 1/8th Native American ("mighty Choctaw!")

Despite a highly eccentric and demanding director (Guest) and a producer (Jennifer Coolidge) whose only contribution is that [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob she can write checks]], awards buzz begins to surround the movie, with Marilyn and Callie's names being considered for Best Actress, while Victor is supposedly being considered for Best Actor. All three soon begin to develop egos, and take great pride in [[TemptingFate knowing that they will soon be Academy Award nominees]]. When the nominations are formally announced, however, only Brian, who has received next to no attention, has been nominated for an award, for Best Supporting Actor. The other three quietly return to their mundane careers.

* NeverLiveItDown: In-universe. Despite being a respected stage veteran for 40 years, all that most people remember of Victor was playing a tv-pitchman for kosher hotdogs early in his career.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Victor and Marilyn are in-universe examples. They're not familiar enough to be household names, but most people remember Victor's hotdog commercials and Marilyn's performance as a blind prostitute well enough to say, "Oh yeah, him/her!"

* SmallNameBigEgo: None of the actors has exactly amounted to much over their careers, but their opinions of themselves swell dramatically the more the rumour that one of them might win an Oscar spreads.

* OscarBait: ''Home for [[strike: Purim]] Thanksgiving'', as well as the period piece ''Pride of Plymouth Rock''.

* YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: Parodied: The in-universe writers are admittedly unfamiliar with Jewish tradition. It shows.

Despite a highly eccentric and demanding director (Guest) and a producer (Jennifer Coolidge) whose only contribution is that [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob she can write checks]], awards buzz begins to surround the movie, with Marilyn and Callie's names being considered for Best Actress, while Victor is supposedly being considered for Best Actor. All three soon begin to develop egos, and take great pride in [[TemptingFate knowing that they will soon be Academy Award nominees]]. When the nominations are formally announced, however, [[spoiler: only Brian, who has received next to no attention, has been nominated for an award, for Best Supporting Actor. The other three quietly return to their mundane careers]].

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The plot follows Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara), a 30-year-veteran of Hollywood who has yet to catch a break. She is able to land the lead role in ''Home For Purim'', playing the dying matriarch of a Southern Jewish family in the 1940s. Also joining her are Victor Allen Miller (Creator/HarryShearer), a former stage actor who has been reduced to doing commercial voice-overs, playing her husband; Callie Webb (ParkerPosey) an off-Broadway comedienne, playing her recently [[ComingOutStory out]] daughter; and newcomer Brian Chubb (Christopher Moynihan) as her son, home from the Navy.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/WaitingForGuffman'', ''BestInShow'', and ''Film/AMightyWind''.
* YouFailReligiousStudiesForever: Parodied: The in-universe writers are admittedly unfamiliar with Jewish tradition. It shows.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Marilyn and Victor are this in-universe.
** For the rest of the film, you have Eugene Levy and John Michael Higgins playing YesMan agents; Ed Begley, Jr., playing the film's head make-up artist; Creator/RickyGervais and Larry Miller playing executive producers; Richard Kind and Sandra Oh as market representatives; and Fred Willard and Jane Lynch as the obnoxious hosts of a TMZ Extra style show.
*** Going Meta, clips from the dailies feature Paul Dooley and John Krasinski in a cop drama, with Mary [=McCormack=] and Shawn Christian in a period piece.