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This Is Spinal Tap

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This Is Spinal Tap
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R,1hr 22min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1984
Director:
Rob Reiner
Distributor:
Criterion
Starring:
Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest  ...more
Synopsis: Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This Is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest as David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel, the key members of a going-nowhere British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. The "group" started as an informal skiffle band, eventually maturing into an R&B act called the Thamesmen (their hit was "Gimme Some Money"). After going through a psychedelic period with "Listen ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming
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If there has ever been a funnier and truer film about rock music than This Is Spinal Tap, no one has had the courage to show it in public. Rob Reiner's hilarious mockumentary chronicle of the misadventures of a group of intellectually challenged British rock musicians touring the U.S. manages to laugh at and with its protagonists at the same time. While the unending cluelessness of Spinal Tap's core ... Full Review
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Rob Reiner
Marty DiBergi
Michael McKean
David St. Hubbins
Christopher Guest
Nigel Tufnel
Harry Shearer
Derek Smalls
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