12.18.19 | Spinal Tap

We are closing out our films for 2019 with Rob Reiner’s biting satire and spoof of the rock and roll scene that passes itself off as a “real” documentary about a “real” band – Spinal Tap. Reiner plays director Marty DeBergi, a filmmaker on a mission to capture the essential truth about the world’s loudest band, the English heavy metal group “Spinal Tap”. In their most outrageous screen performances to date, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean inhabit the band mates with a ferocity (and innocence) that drives this hilarious mockumentary that would influence a generation of filmmakers.

I can promise you a rollicking evening of fun and quite brilliant filmmaking that has resulted in a true classic of comedy. Roger Ebert proclaimed it “One of the funniest movies of all time.”

Synopsis:


In the mocumentary Spinal Tap, filmmaker Marty Di Bergi documents the rock group Spinal Tap as they tour the United States for their album Smell the Glove. David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel are on vocals and guitar. Derek Smalls is the bassist. The film takes us behind-the-scenes and into the self-involved, narcissistic, over-the-top world of this mock band – and the adventures of their tour, tensions with management, girlfriends and the whole nihilistic world of rock.