A Mighty Wind
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North American release poster
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| Directed by | Christopher Guest |
| Produced by | Karen Murphy |
| Written by | Christopher Guest Eugene Levy |
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Catherine O'Hara Eugene Levy Christopher Guest Michael McKean Harry Shearer John Michael Higgins Jane Lynch Parker Posey Fred Willard |
| Music by | Christopher Guest |
| Cinematography | Arlene Nelson |
| Edited by | Robert Leighton |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Release date
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April 16, 2003 |
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Running time
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $18.7 million |
A Mighty Wind is a 2003 American mockumentary comedy film about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. The film was directed, co-written and composed by Christopher Guest. The film is widely acknowledged to reference the 2003 tribute concert to folk music producer Harold Leventhal that reunited several of the folk groups that Leventhal had managed. More broadly, the film is a parody of the American folk music revival of the early 1960s and its personalities.
Guest co-stars and reunites many of his company of actors from This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, and Best in Show for this film. They include Eugene Levy (who also co-wrote the screenplay), Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins, Jane Lynch and Parker Posey.
Several characters in the film originated in a sketch written by Guest for Saturday Night Live in 1984. Shearer, Guest, and McKean appeared as The Folksmen on Saturday Night Live, in the movie This is Spinal Tap (which similarly featured the trio as a parody of an aging heavy metal band), and occasionally on concert stages. The original conception for A Mighty Wind was as a longer narrative vehicle for the fictional group
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