So, let a listing of some of the major
characters suffice to bring an anticipatory smile to your face: Harry Shearer as Victor Allan Miller, best - known for playing a frankfurter
in television commercials; Eugene Levy as Morley Orfkin, Miller's
worthless agent; John Michael Higgins as Corey Taft, clueless publicist; Jennifer Coolidge as Whitney Taylor Brown, superfluous producer / financier; Ed Begley Jr. as Sandy Lane, stylist to the semi-stars; Parker Posey and Christopher Monyihan as romantically entangled co-stars; Bob Balaban and Michael McKean as the screenwriters; Jane Lynch and Fred Willard as hosts of an «Entertainment Tonight» - like TV show; Michael Hitchcock and Don Lake as TV
film critics; Ricky Gervais and Guest himself as the director of «Home for Purim.»