英文电影宝典——Best in Show

			
	
Best in Show
(Comedy) ( 2000)
© 2000 by Raymond Weschler




Major Characters

Gerry Fleck.....................Eugene Levy
     A middle aged salesman from Fern City, Florida who has two left feet
     (literally!) and is obsessed with his dog Winky, a tiny Norwhich Terrier.

Cookie Fleck....................Catherine O’ Hara
     Gerry’s loyal wife who apparently slept with hundreds
     of men before she met and married Gerry.
	
Hamilton Swan...................Michael Hitchcock
      A deeply shallow and easily angered Illinois lawyer who loves
      discussing products such as coffee and the J. Bean shopping catalog. 

Meg Swan.........................Parker Posey
     Hamilton’s sexy but completely neurotic wife who is obsessed
     with making sure their dog, Beatrice, wins the Mayflower Dog show.

Sherri...........................Jennifer Coolidge
     A young lesbian woman who is married to a man 50 years older
     than she is, who owns a ridiculous poodle named Rhapsody in White.

Christy...........................Jane Lynch
     Sherri’s lesbian partner who is Rhapsody’s trainer and who is
	    determined to make sure she wins the show for the 3rd  year in a row.

Scott.............................John Michael Higgins
     A divorced professional dog handler who lives in New York.

Stefan............................Michael McKean
     Scott’s gay partner who owns a hair salon and who is obsessed
     with all things sexual, and with their Shi Tzu dog, Miss Agnes.

Harlan Pepper.....................Christopher Guest
     A gentle bachelor from Pine Nut, North Carolina, who owns
     a fishing shop and a bloodhound dog, Hubert.

Buck Laughlin.....................Fred Willard
     The loveable but stupid commentator who knows little about dogs
     or anything else, but is host of the TV show that covers the dog show.

Plot Summary

This film is a "mocumentary," or a satire of a documentary, about the various people
who come from far away places to enter their dogs in the Mayflower Kennel and Dog Show
in Philadelphia. They include four couples, all of them a little bit crazy, and a
bachelor, Harlan Pepper, who is the owner of a small fishing shop, and perhaps the
most normal of the group. The others include Gerry and Cookie Fleck, a middle aged
couple from Florida, Hamilton and Meg, young professional lawyers who are superficial,
sex obsessed and bizarre, Scott and Stefan, gay partners from New York, and Sherri and
Christy, a lesbian couple (although Sherri is officially married to a man triple her age).

All of these dog lovers live completely different lives in completely different places,
and many reflect the American subcultures from which they come (for example, Scott and
Stefan are liberated gay New Yorkers, while Harlan is from a small conservative town in
North Carolina). Yet all of them are part of another subculture, the odd world of
professional d
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