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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
The closest match: another lovingly exact mockumentary, where eccentric devotees reveal themselves through deadpan interviews, awkward reunions, and tiny emotional stakes treated with complete sincerity.
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Why this pick
Shares Best in Show’s ensemble structure and affectionate satire: passionately deluded locals prepare for a supposedly important event, with improvised-feeling comedy and surprising warmth.
03
Why this pick
Its fake-documentary framing and competitive-event setting create a similarly sharp, straight-faced portrait of earnest ambition, regional oddity, and people taking pageantry very seriously.
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Why this pick
Christopher Guest applies the same observant ensemble comedy to awards-season vanity, preserving the dry interviews, social discomfort, and affection beneath the ridicule.
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Why this pick
Not a mockumentary, but its industry satire has the same fondness for hopeful, peculiar strivers and lets escalating absurdity emerge from recognizably human desperation.
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01 / THE STORY
''Best in Show'' is presented as a Documentary film of five dogs and their owners destined to show in the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show, held in Philadelphia. Segments of the documentary continuously cycle among owners and handlers as each prepares to leave for the show, arrives at the hotel, prepares backstage, handles their dog's performance, and appears in a post-show follow-up. The owners and their dogs include:
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Dr. Chuck Nelken
Meg Swan
Cookie Fleck
Dr. Theodore W. Millbank, III
Fishin' Hole Guy
Harlan Pepper
New York Butcher
Sherri Ann Cabot
